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Four overlapping cases being handled by a rural law firm in the Haute-Auvergne. The film follows the way it handles two sales transactions, an inventory and an inheritance case. The firm becomes the scene of property and financial deals, private conversations and secret exchanges. The importance of words and the scrutiny of such details as gestures, attitudes and looks reveal certain ways of relating to the outside world, notably in matters of death and money. The painstakingly detailed approach to this closed notarial world allows us to witness a series of tableaux in several acts, in which the characters and their behavior seem part of another world, so close to our own yet so distant, so different from us yet so like us.

France / Belgium - 1999 - 1 h 11 mn - Super 16 mm • 1,66 - Colour

Réalisation Marc-Antoine Roudil, Sophie Bruneau Scénario Marc-Antoine Roudil, Sophie Bruneau Image Antoine-Marie Meert Son Yves Capus Montage Michel Boucq

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