A BOAT IN THE GARDEN (EUFF VIET NAM 2026)
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A BOAT IN THE GARDEN <EUFF ONLINE>
France, Luxembourg — 75’ — 2024
Director: Jean-François Laguionie
Writers: Jean-François Laguionie, Anik Leray
Voices: Elias Hauter, Grégory Gadebois, Coraly Zahonero
Music: Pascal Le Pennec
Keywords: Family, Childhood, Nostalgia
Age rating: P
The film screens online for free at .... between 26 November—07 December 2026
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François, a daydreaming child of boundless imagination, has his life changed when his father decides to start building a boat in the garden. Thus begins the family’s grand odyssey, a collective venture to construct a boat that would carry them away – somewhere between reality and reverie.
‘Replete with good humour, imagination, poetry, bikes, open-air cafes and gypsy jazz, an island on the Marne harbouring first loves, BHV and the Maritime Museum in Paris, and cinema with Gary Cooper in Cecil B. DeMille’s Unconquered, an entire era is gently brought to the surface in A BOAT IN THE GARDEN. But the film gracefully sidesteps any melancholy attachment to the past by anchoring itself in the universal, namely a young boy’s sense of observation and ability to listen, a boy who wants to love and be loved by his father, but who’s also growing up himself.’ (Cineuropa)
Still images © Cineuropa
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