Those Facing Us (Ceux d'en face) 23 years old

In a big isolated house, Mikael, a musician, is composing a psalm. A young woman, Linda, comes to retreive a suitcase belonging to Sébastien, her companion and Mikael's friend. It contains hundreds of photographs from all over the world. While he is travelling, Sébastien has asked Linda to organise the photographs with a view to an exhibition. Mikael invites Linda to reside with him. She accepts. That is the heart of the film – an intertwining of photographs which, juxtaposed by Linda, begin to speak. In parallel with this, Linda receives cassette-letters from Sébastien. A subtle relationship is established between Linda, the young debutante, and Mikael, the man of experience. Mikael goes off to direct his psalm, Linda stays alone. The walls become covered with photographs – wall of happiness, wall of misery – the fight between Good and Evil. Linda learns of the accidental death of Sébastien and stays alone.

Credits

Those Facing Us Cast

Name	Character
Michael Lonsdale He was 70, now 93 years old	as Mikaël
Alain Beigel He was 37, now 60 years old	as Sébastien
Valentine Vidal	as Linda

Those Facing Us Crew

Name	Department
Antoine Duhamel as Original Music Composer. He was 76 (89) years old when He died	Sound
Jean-Daniel Pollet as Director. He was 65 (68) years old when He died	Directing
Jean-Daniel Pollet as Writer. He was 65 (68) years old when He died	Writing
Acácio de Almeida as Director of Photography. He was 63 (now 86) years old	Camera