A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
March 16, 2003
Original Title:
Sem Ela
Alternate Titles:
Sans elle...
Sensiz ...
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Filmes do Tejo
Les Films de l'Après-Midi
Production Countries:
France | Portugal
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 103
Johnny, aged 20, can't live without Fanfan, his twin sister. There is a very particular intimacy between them. They walk together everywhere, share the same room, the same tastes, the same bike, the same camping tent. But also a conflict principle sets in. Oppressed by his overbearing need, she decides to head for the south of Portugal, the country of their parents. His dreams are shattered; he feels deeply betrayed by his sister. Caught between his father who is preparing to retire to Portugal and his mother who refuses to leave France, he tries to work out his own identity. His passion for rock music gets him involved with his sister's former lover. By following this charismatic leader preaching dubious ideology, he risks losing his "gentle half" forever. Meanwhile in Portugal, she becomes disillusioned. Will they manage to grow up without each other?
Casting:
Gwendale Schmitz
Costume Design:
Nadia Baggioli
Director:
Anna da Palma
Director of Photography:
Tony Costa
Editor:
Monique Dartonne
Hairstylist:
Adriana Rodrigo
Key Hair Stylist:
Ana Ferreira
Key Makeup Artist:
Ana Lorena
Original Music Composer:
François Gondouin
Producer:
Maria João Mayer
François d'Artemare
Production Design:
Davi Bartex
Sound:
Yves Levêque
Sound Editor:
Monique Dartonne
Sound Mixer:
Patrick Ghislain
Writer:
Anna da Palma
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.