Every year, in Munster, in the region of Alsace, a ball with a strange name takes place: the Widows' Ball. Disguised and masked, women are the ones who invite men to the dance.
The ball is the time for them to take control. Meanwhile, menexpectthem toset their heartson them. Encounters, secrets,seductionanddisappointment...anything is possible.
technical data :
duration
61 minutes
author
Damien Fritsch
camera
Bernard Colinet, Benoît Vetter, Philippe Strabach
sound
Pierre Bailleul, Maurice Gojean, Jean Guy
editing
Damien Fritsch
production
Dora Films
coproduction
France 3 Alsace
grants
Centre National de la Cinématographie, Région Alsace
Every year, in Munster, in the region of Alsace, a ball with a strange name takes place: the Widows' Ball. Disguised and masked, women are the ones who invite men to the dance.
Four girls move into a bungalow in the Emmaus community in Strasbourg. They came all the way from Europe or Asia, to share the Companions' daily life and work for a few weeks.
“I see neither forms nor light, nothing, absolutely nothing. But I’m not in the dark, I see nothing“, says Jean-Michel, who is blind from birth, like the other characters in the film.