''Through the Forest'' (french: À travers la forêt) is a 2005 French film directed by

Jean-Paul Civeyrac Jean-Paul Civeyrac (born 24 December 1964) is a French director whose films are usually characterized by close attention to music and actors' bodies. He has adapted a French novel by Anne Wiazemsky, ''Hymnes à l'amour'', with the title ''All the ...

Plot

After a motorcycle accident, Renaud dies. His girlfriend Armelle (

Camille Berthomier Jehnny Beth (born Camille Berthomier, 24 December 1984), is a French musician, singer-songwriter, producer, presenter and actress, best known as half of the duo John & Jehn and front woman of the English rock band Savages. Her debut solo album ...

) can't forget him. Her sisters suggest she could go to a

medium Medium may refer to: Science and technology Aviation *Medium bomber, a class of war plane * Tecma Medium, a French hang glider design Communication * Media (communication), tools used to store and deliver information or data * Medium of ...

for help. Through this medium, Armelle encounters Hyppolite, who looks exactly like Renaud.

Cast

as Armelle * Aurelien Wiik as Hippolyte/ Renaud * Morgane Hainaux as Roxane * Alice Dubuisson as Bérénice * Mireille Roussel as the medium *

Valérie Crunchant Valérie Crunchant (born 1978) is a French actress. She was born in Évry, Essonne, a suburb of Paris. Valérie Crunchant appears in ''All the fine promises'' (2003), directed and written by Jean-Paul Civeyrac (based on Anne Wiazemsky's novel ...

as medium's assistant

Release

*July 2005 in

Festival Paris Cinéma The Festival Paris Cinéma is one of the most recent French movie festivals, started in 2003. It is held annually in July. It was launched in 2003 after the municipal government withdrew funding for Festival du Film de Paris.Staff report (October 15 ...

*September 2005 in

Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a permane ...

*12 October 2005

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

*22 October 2005 in

London Film Festival The BFI London Film Festival is an annual film festival founded in 1957 and held in the United Kingdom, running for two weeks in October with co-operation from the British Film Institute. It screens more than 300 films, documentaries and shor ...

References

External links

DVD Toile(French)À travers la forêt in Toronto International Film Festival
*{{IMDb title, 0477404, À travers la forêt 2005 films Films set in Paris 2000s French-language films 2000s fantasy drama films French fantasy drama films 2005 drama films 2000s French films