A FOREIGN BODY

A FOREIGN BODY (SINON, OUI ), 1997

France| 35mm, Color, 120’ |French

Director:Claire Simon
Cast: Catherine Mendez, Emmanuel Clarke, Lou Castel

Magali unintentionally leads her husband to believe she is pregnant. Her husband wants her to have an abortion but she refuses. Over time, as this lie revives their rather unstable marriage and leads her ill father to take a stronger hold on life, Magali herself starts to believe that the lie is real. Try as she may, she cannot bring herself to tell the truth. Claire Simon’s first feature-length film, The Foreign Body puts a finger on a century-old debate by bringing to the screen the disparity between how humans perceive themselves and how they are perceived by others.