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Babel: A Letter to My Friends Left Behind in Belgium

★ 5.4/10 · 5 votes 1991 6h 20m Released

DocumentaryComedy

The film narrates the day-to-day existence of a filmmaker wandering through his city (Brussels) and who has a notion to follow in the footsteps of dramatist Antonin Artaud and visit the Tarahumara people of Mexico. This is a film about intimacy and friendship. Written in the first person, it places Boris and Brussels in the centre of the universe, here represented by the crazy, vertiginous, endless spiral of the biblical Tower. It is Boris's diary and self-portrait. He plays himself on screen (as do the cast of a hundred who also allowed themselves to be “babelised“).

Cast

Boris Lehman self N Nathalie Balou self François Beukelaers self M Maggy Collard self K Kathleen de Béthune self C Chistine Defrise self