ESTHER KAHN

Arnaud DESPLECHIN
  • 2000
  • In Competition
  • Feature Films

London, at the end of the 19th Century. Esther Kahn lives in the East End, her parents are Jewish migrants, they all work in the family sweatshop.

Esther is slow and stubborn, she never has an opinion about anything, she never feels anything for anybody: she’s a stone.

Yet she forces us to consider questions usually reserved for philosophers: if I am capable of dreaming, how can I know that the world exists? What if all we do is imitate life? Where will “real life” happen?

But as hard as she tries to imitate others, Esther comes to realize that this isn’t the way to become a person.

Then, once in the theatre Esther “wakes up”, she comes to life: because she doesn’t watch the play like others do, she lives it.

Esther decides to become an actress.

She now begins to learn ho

Directed by : Arnaud DESPLECHIN
Country: France, United Kingdom
Duration: 157

Credits

Casting

Discover more

CHUNHYANG

Kwon-Taek IM

CODE INCONNU

Michael HANEKE

DANCER IN THE DARK

Lars Von Trier

ESTORVO

Ruy GUERRA

EUREKA

Shinji AOYAMA

GOHATTO

Nagisa OSHIMA

KIPPUR

Amos GITAI

LA NOCE

Pavel LOUNGUINE

NURSE BETTY

Neil LABUTE

TAKHTE SIAH

Samira MAKHMALBAF

THE YARDS

James GRAY

TROLOSA

(FAITHLESS) Liv ULLMANN

YI YI

Edward YANG