The Blind Owl

The Blind Owl (1987)

TMDb

7.3

31/12/1987 • 1h 30m
original-title

La Chouette aveugle

status

Released

production-companies

Light Night

Maison de la Culture du Havre

TSR

La Sept Cinéma

original-language

French

budget

-

revenue

-

H., 35, an Arabian immigrant, works as projectionist in an old cinema. One day, drawn by the music, he looks through the window of the booth and is fascinated: the dancer he sees on the screen seems to be looking straight into his eyes. He falls in love with her, but the vision last only a moment. Shortly afterwards, an elderly man storms into the projection booth and claims he is his uncle.
 H. wants to prepare a meal for him and reaches for the oil bottle: he sees the same dancer on the label…. H begins to find echoes of his own life in the images he projects. Everything changes when fiction and reality merge...

director
production-countries

France

Switzerland

spoken-languages

Spanish

French

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