La position de l'escargot

Directed by Michka Saäl

Canada / France, 1998 (fiction, 101 minutes, colour, French)

Also known as "Les états d'absence"

Film Description [in French] :
"Les remises en question d'une jeune Juive originaire du Maghreb qui vit à Montréal depuis dix ans."
-- Michel Jacques (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by:	Michka Saäl
Produced by:	Rosalinde Deville, Jeannine Gagné
Principal Cast:	Victor Lanoux, Jude-Antoine Jarda, Mirella Tomassini, Pascale Montpetit, Dino Tavarone, Henri Chassé
Film Editing:	Natacha Dufaux
Music:	Jean Derome
Production Company:	Elé Film, Les films de l'autre

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Quote about La position de l'escargot

"A co-production with France, La position de l'escargot (1998) tells the story of Myriam (Mirella Tomassini), a young woman of Tunisian-Jewish origin who works as an interpreter for the immigration services in Montreal. The film's examination of the relationsips between fixity and flow, appartenance, and partance are structured around the unexpected return of Myriam's father Dédé (Victor Lanoux), who had left his family twenty years before."
-- Bill Marshall (source)