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On Your Head
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On Your Head

2001-10-19 · 104 min · ★ 4.8

Drama

Nothing gets by Simone, even though she's blind. An adorable, incredibly precocious ten-year-old girl, Simone sets herself the task of coping with (and sometimes manipulating) the many offbeat charact... read more ers that surround her- including her broken-hearted father, an aging anarchist beekeeper, a beloved and asthmatic quasi-mother-in-law, a priest in the midst of a crisis of faith, and a biker with a wandering heart, for whom she has unconditional love. And then, of course, there's the village in which she lives, where everyone knows your business and makes it their own. No wonder Simone feels that she lives her life like a reel of film jumping in the sprockets of a projector. Life is strange and complicated enough, and then an aviator falls from the sky, threatening everything Simone loves the most.

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Directors
Geneviève Lefebvre, André Melançon
Production companies
Be-FILMS, CBC, Productions Thalie, SODEC, Téléfilm Canada
Countries
Canada
Status
Released

Top Cast

Céline BonnierCéline Bonnier
David BoutinDavid Boutin
Nathalie BreuerNathalie Breuer'La belle Hélène'
Serge DupireSerge Dupire
Daniel FanegoDaniel Fanego
Maka KottoMaka KottoAbbot Florent
Arianne Maheu
Marc MessierMarc MessierGaby
Rosa ZacharieRosa Zacharie

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