Babel - lettre à mes amis restés en Belgique
director:
Boris Lehman
playwright:
Boris Lehman
actor:
Boris Lehman
/
Nathalie Balou
/
François Beukelaers
/
Maggy Collard
/
Kathleen de Béthune
…
genre:
Drama
/
Comedy
/
Documentary
region:
Belgium
language:
French
length: 6h 20m
release date: 1991
IMDb: tt0257420
Babel - lettre à mes amis restés en Belgique
Overview
The film narrates the day-to-day existence of a filmmaker wandering through his city (Brussels) and who has a notion to follow in the footsteps of dramatist Antonin Artaud and visit the Tarahumara people of Mexico. This is a film about intimacy and friendship. Written in the first person, it places Boris and Brussels in the centre of the universe, here represented by the crazy, vertiginous, endless spiral of the biblical Tower. It is Boris's diary and self-portrait. He plays himself on screen (as do the cast of a hundred who also allowed themselves to be “babelised“).