Far next door

Have you ever wanted to return to childhood andrelive the first friendship and first love, meet again with your old friends, walk along the narrow streets of your native city? But in childhood, alas, you can not return. Although ... the hero of the film "Far next door" managed to do it.

To Thomas many can envy: by the age of fifty he has a prestigiouswork (he draws comics about the superheroin Agatu Hayes), a solid bank account and a loving family. But he is very tired, and the future life seems to him gray and uninteresting.

Returning home from the book fair, Thomas accidentally sits on the wrong train. So Thomas finds himself in city of my childhood. He comes to the cemetery and to his mother's graveremembers recollections of the tragic events of forty years ago: his father left the family on his birthday, and his mother could not survive this grief.

At the cemetery, Thomas loses consciousness, and when he comes to, that he is again fourteen years old. He again meets his parents, his beloved sister and even the faithful dog, re-experiencing school love. He meets his father, who has not yet left the family.

Who knows, perhaps the whole point of a wonderful journey into the past is not to let the father leave the family and to rectify past mistakes? And a fourteen-year-old with the life experience of a fifty-year-old man tries to live his youth anew and change for the better his fate and the fate of his relatives.

Information about the film

Name: Far next door
Original name: Quartier lointain
Tagline: A magical journey through time
Year: 2010
A country: Belgium, Germany, France, Luxembourg
Genre: drama
Producer: Sam Harbarsky
Cast: Pascal Greggory, Jonathan Cassay, Alexandra Maria Lara, Leo Legrand, Laura Martin, Laura Moisson, Pierre-Louis Bellett, Tanya Garbarski, Laurence Lipsky, Luis Bianchi and others.
Scenario: Jiro Taniguchi, Sam Garbarsky, Philip Blasban
World premiere: May 20, 2010
Premiere in the Russian Federation: August 4, 2011
Duration: 98 minutes

Interesting Facts

The plot of the film "Far next door" is based oncult manga Jiro Taniguchi. The scene was moved from postwar Japan to France, and the story itself was adapted to French reality.

The soundtrack to the film was written and performed by the French band Air, whose members previously worked on the soundtrack for the film "Virgin-suicide" directed by Sofia Coppola.