Un Petit Frére poster with a mother and her two young boys backlit from a window

Film: "Un Petit Frére" (2022) (Francophone Film Festival)

Un Petit Frére (Mother and Son)

Quick Stats

  • French film by Léonor Serraille
  • 2022
  • 1 hour 56 minutes
  • Drama

Themes

  • Suburbs,
  • Childhood,
  • Family,
  • Women,
  • Immigration,

Film Description and Details

When Rose arrives in France, she moves into the Parisian suburbs with her two sons, Jean and Ernest. The film follows the construction and deconstruction of a family, from the late 1980s up to the present day.

Sponsorisé par Spurlock Museum, Villa Albertine, Institut Français du Cinéma, Centre d’Excellence et UIUC-Department of French & Italian Organisé par Prof. Aurore Mroz (FRIT) (external link), Nico Norris (external link), Macha Petre (GSFRIT) (external link).

Read more about the Francophone Film Festival (external link).

All films will have English subtitles.

Contact

For further information on this event, contact Aurore Mroz at .

All are welcome. To request disability-related accommodations for this event, please contact Brian Cudiamat at or (217) 244-5586.