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Like A Distant Neighborhood, it sends a disillusioned adult back into their teenage life, using the second chance for tender, uneasy reflection on family, love and choices.
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Why this pick
Like A Distant Neighborhood, it sends a disillusioned adult back into their teenage life, using the second chance for tender, uneasy reflection on family, love and choices.
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A gentle Korean time-travel drama centered on an older man revisiting a formative period, balancing the hope of changing regret with the emotional cost of understanding the past.
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Its return to an earlier family era shares the warm, melancholy pull of rediscovering parents as young people, with humor gradually giving way to heartfelt reflection.
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An older protagonist unexpectedly regains youth in this funny but sincere family drama, where youthful possibility brings buried memories and intergenerational feeling into focus.
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This delicately observed animated coming-of-age story uses repeated trips through time less for spectacle than for the fleeting sweetness, mistakes and emotional weight of adolescence.
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01 / THE STORY
Thomas, a father in his fifties, returns by chance to the town where he grew up. He collapses and wakes up forty years earlier in the body of his teenage self. Thrown back into his past, Thomas will not only have to re-live his first love, but also try to understand the reasons for his father’s mysterious departure. Can you change the past by living it again?
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Thomas Verniaz, adulte
Chabrot

Contrôleur
Dr Dumontel

Catherine

Thomas Verniaz, adolescant

Anna Verniaz née Zorn

Godin adulte