Le Ballon de Rouge
Short Films • 19m
Paris, France, 1963. A couple have an argument in a bar. A young man sitting nearby hears the man threaten his wife. When a speaker announces the assassination of President JFK, everybody stands up and moves closer to the bar to hear the news again. The young man takes the opportunity to talk to the girl and tells her what could be their life together if she accepts to run away with him, now.
DIRECTED BY SYLVAIN BRESSOLLETTE
FRANCE | 2014 | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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