Parasol (2015)
Directed by Valéry Rosier

Comedy

Film Synopsis

In Majorca, three lonely people spend the last weeks of summer trying to come to grips with their lives.  Alfie, a naive young English man, is looking for friendship and love, but he only ends up getting his ego bruised by the unsympathetic egoists who cross his path.   Meanwhile, a single father is struggling to juggle the responsibilities of work and fatherhood, and is not helped by his ex-wife's constant ill-treatment of him.  And then there is Annie, an amiable Belgian tourist in her seventies - she manages to get herself hoodwinked by a married man that she met on the internet...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Valéry Rosier
  • Script: Matthieu Donck, Valéry Rosier
  • Photo: Olivier Boonjing
  • Music: Manuel Roland
  • Cast: Alfie Thomson (Alfie), Pere Yosko (Pere), Julienne Goeffers (Annie), Christian Carré (Christian), Ahilen Saldano (Ahilen), Ross Stott (Ross), Delphine Théodore (La réceptionniste)
  • Country: Belgium
  • Language: English / French / Spanish
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 90 min

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