A young boy has to deal with increasing family and school pressures as his mother's disease worsens.
Acting
Suzanne Clément's laugh will haunt you beautifully.
Writing
Directors adapted their own stage play about their actual mother.
Director
Pascal Ralite
Suzanne Clément
Marie
Pascal Demolon
Romain
Sabrina Seyvecou
Gabrielle
Igor van Dessel
Adrien
Corrado Invernizzi
Psychanalyste
Chloé Barkoff-Gaillard
Elève de l'atelier théâtre
Grégoire Colin
ORL
Bertrand Combe
Nicolas
Carmen Ferlan
Suzanne (as Carmen Ferlan)
Christian Drillaud
Armand
Jean-Yves Chilot
Patrice
Ludivine de Chastenet
Myriam (as Ludivine de Chasteney)
Marie Berto
L'infirmière
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title's cruel irony: Marie's laughter becomes her symptom, then her absence. The directors lost their mother to ALS; every frame carries that authentic grief.
Igor van Dessel was 12 during filming and had never acted before—those raw reactions are genuinely his first takes.
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