Sous le figuier

Nathalie, Christophe and Joëlle are going through existential crises, when they meet Selma, 95, who is condemned to die but will teach them to live. Selma, long-time widow, humble family background, makes money by being a fortune-teller three nights a week in the «Café Voyance». Someday, Selma learns that she’s very sick, her friend Nathalie decided to rent a house, next to La Meuse in Luxembourg, for the summer and to go there with Selma, and other friends. All together under the fig tree, they slowly understand that they are not helping Selma to die peacefully as they thought, but she is helping them to live.

Keywords

  • LuxFilmFest
  • LuxFilmFest - Comédies
  • LuxFilmFest - Luxembourg
  • Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis
  • Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis (home)
  • Made with Luxembourg
  • Summer
  • Summertime Movies
  • mourning
  • nature
  • summer

Actors

  • Chloé Imbert
  • Jonathan Zaccaï
  • Marie Kremer
  • Anne Consigny
  • Claire Blanquet
  • Gisèle Casadesus

Director

  • Anne-Marie Etienne

Comedy, Drama


1h 32min


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FR

France
Belgium
Luxembourg
2011
Nathalie, Christophe and Joëlle are going through existential crises, when they meet Selma, 95, who is condemned to die but will teach them to live.

Nathalie, Christophe and Joëlle are going through existential crises, when they meet Selma, 95, who is condemned to die but will teach them to live.


Selma, long-time widow, humble family background, makes money by being a fortune-teller three nights a week in the «Café Voyance». Someday, Selma learns that she’s very sick, her friend Nathalie decided to rent a house, next to La Meuse in Luxembourg, for the summer and to go there with Selma, and other friends. All together under the fig tree, they slowly understand that they are not helping Selma to die peacefully as they thought, but she is helping them to live.

Cast & Crew