Suzanne the mother is transformed into Suzanne the unmanageable child. She spends without restraint, pays nocturnal visits to her neighbours to make toast and fashions herself a fake driving license using scissors and glue. ![]() Thirty-somethings Alex ( Jean Le Peltier) and Noémie ( Lucie Debay) would like to have a child, but their plans are turned upside down when Suzanne ( Jo Deseure), Alex’s mother, starts to make some whopping errors of judgement, owing to the fact that she’s developed "semantic dementia", a neurodegenerative illness which affects her behaviour. In their début feature film Madly in Life, which is opening the Namur International Film Festival today, 2 October, Raphaël Balboni and Ann Sirot address a serious subject with emotion and humour: what do we do when our parents revert to a state of childhood? Should we put our lives on hold while we wait for theirs to end? ![]() ![]() Jo Deseure, Jean Le Peltier and Lucie Debay in Madly in Life
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