The Ordinary Gesture

The portrait of a discreet man, of a workman. Marc Coton's portrait, the father of the director. The echo of a warm silence, which has screened off his family from the racket of the steel industry, where he has been working for 30 years. The story of an uncompleted inheritance, of a silence promise: « My son, you’ll become a different man ». The film leads to reconciliation achieved through the years, through daily acts.

Keywords

  • Belgium
  • parenthood

Director

  • Maxime Coton

Documentary, Independent

1h 4min

tous publics

FR

Belgium
2011
The portrait of a discreet man, of a workman. Marc Coton's portrait, the father of the director. The echo of a warm silence, which has screened off his family from the racket of the steel industry, where he has been working for 30 years. The story of an uncompleted inheritance, of a silence promise: « My son, you’ll become a different man ». The film leads to reconciliation achieved through the years, through daily acts.

The portrait of a discreet man, of a workman. Marc Coton's portrait, the father of the director. The echo of a warm silence, which has screened off his family from the racket of the steel industry, where he has been working for 30 years. The story of an uncompleted inheritance, of a silence promise: « My son, you’ll become a different man ». The film leads to reconciliation achieved through the years, through daily acts.


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