Lourdes

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Lourdes

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Lourdes

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Lourdes

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Lourdes

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Lourdes

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Lourdes

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Lourdes

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Lourdes

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Lourdes

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Lourdes

Film Info

Austria 2009 | 96 min. Director: Jessica Hausner

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Project / Host

European Film Awards

Lourdes

Synopsis

Christine has been confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. In order to escape her isolation, she makes a journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees mountains. She wakes up one morning seemingly cured by a miracle. The leader of the pilgrimage group, a handsome 40-year-old volunteer from the Order of Malta, begins to take an interest in her. She tries to hold on to this newfound chance for happiness, while her cure provokes envy and admiration.

Cast & Crew

Director

Jessica Hausner
Producer

Martin Gschlacht, Philippe Bober, Susanne Marian
Screenwriter

Jessica Hausner
Director of photography

Martin Gschlacht
Main Cast

Sylvie Testud, Léa Seydoux, Elina Löwensohn, Bruno Todeschini, Gerhard Liebmann
Editor (Cut)

Karina Ressler
Production Design

Katharina Wöppermann

Director's comment

Lourdes is a (cruel) fairy-tale, a day-dream or a nightmare. Ill people of the entire world go to Lourdes hoping to get their health back, hoping for a miracle, because Lourdes is a place where the existence of miracles is still asserted, a place synonymous of hope, comfort and recovery for the desperate and the dying. But the ways of God are unfathomable, and the hope that on the verge of death, everything may turn out alright is one that seems absurd when life is drawing to an end. Lourdes is the stage on which this human comedy plays out.