Olivier, Olivier

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Olivier, Olivier
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R,1hr 50min
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1992
Synopsis: Olivier, the nine-year-old son of a country veterinarian, vanishes one afternoon on the way to his grandmother's house. The emotional aftermath of his disappearance sends his father packing from France to Africa and nearly destroys his mother, who clings to her remaining child, Nadine, and her devoted neighbor, Marcel. Several years later, having relocated to the city, the police investigator who handled the case meets a Paris rent boy whom he believes to be the missing Olivier. Once he returns to ... Full Synopsis
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Although similar in premise to The Deep End of the Ocean, Ulu Grosbard's 1999 child-abduction melodrama, this earlier film by Agnieszka Holland sketches the same scenario with a more exotic palette, one that eschews stock realism for hallucinatory intensity. Brigitte Roüan is compelling as the grief-ravaged mother of the missing boy Olivier, while Gregoire Colin and Marina Golovine, as the teenaged ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Dr. Serge Duval
Elisabeth Duval
l'inspecteur Druot
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