The Man Who Wanted a Child (movie)
L'homme qui rêvait d'un enfant- Production country: France
- Producer: Delphine Gleize
- Production companies: Balthazar Productions
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 3/21/2007
- Run time: 87 min.
Movie description
Alfred lives with his mother in a small village keeping chickens and selling eggs at the local market. He doesn't speak, except to his mother and to children. He has a girlfriend of sorts, although she shies away from any physical contact with her. But more than anything, Alfred wants a child. As natural fatherhood is out of the question he takes the next best option, and makes an application to adopt. With a very un-French lack of bureaucracy Alfred's adoptive son arrives, but turns out not to be the bouncing baby he was hoping for. [taken from London Film Festival 2006 catalogue]
