Olivier, Olivier

Name: Olivier, Olivier
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1992
Duration: 110 min
Cast: Frédéric Quiring, Faye Gatteau, Emmanuel Morozof, Brigitte Roüan, François Cluzet

Agnieszka Holland19921h 50mCrime, Drama, Thriller

Why we chose it

With music by Zbigniew Preisner, her regular composer and Kieślowski’s, Agnieszka Holland briefly lets you believe in an idyllic summer of kids in the fields and endless holidays. Then nine-year-old Olivier vanishes on his way to his grandmother’s, and years later a boy turns up claiming to be him.

Synopsis

The family is spending the summer on a vet’s farm in the French countryside when nine-year-old Olivier sets off on his bike to take his grandmother her lunch, and never gets there. Over the next six years the family falls apart. Then, in Paris, a policeman picks up a teenager selling himself on the street, and the boy says his name is Olivier.