Movielogr
A Brother... (1997)
Directed by Sylvie Verheyde
Overview
Loic and Sophie are siblings living with their mother in a block of flats. The impetuous, promiscuous Loic is a talented photographer about to make it to the big time, but being pulled back by loyalty to his best friend and ex-lover, both junkies. Sophie, a schoolgirl on holidays, is quietly undergoing a sexual awakening, observing from a distance Loic’s milieu; she begins an affair with his business partner to Loic’s quasi-incestuous disapproval. Loic is spotted by a prominent editor, but becomes increasingly unhinged, by his friend’s violent struggles with dealers, by his lover’s demands, by Sophie’s ‘betrayal’, by his own ‘demons’. Tragedy inevitably strikes.
Length 91 minutes
Actors
Emma de Caunes | Jeannick Gravelines | Nils Tavernier | Emmanuel Nicolas | Ann-Gisel Glass | Cyrille Hertel | Jean-Philippe Baltel | Serge-Robert Bedrines | Anthony Souter | Karole Rocher