Benoît Mariage

19.06.1961, Virton, Belgium

 

Director
Before his feature film debut The Carriers Are Waiting (Les convoyeurs attendent, 1999), Benoît Mariage directed the short films Elvis (1990) and The Signalman (Le signaleur, 1997). He also made the medium length documentary Nemadis, the Years Without News (Némadis, des années sans nouvelles, 2000) and the feature films The Missing Half (L'autre, 2003) and Cow-Boy (2007).

Filmography


Films by this director

The Carriers Are Waiting

(Les convoyeurs attendent, 1999.)

Directed by: Benoît Mariage
PHOTOGRAPHY: Philippe Guilbert
Synopsis:

Roger is a photographer for a local newspaper, a husband and father of two, the teenaged Micheland and his little sister Luisa. He is disappointed with family life and wants something more. He gets an opportunity to enter a competition for breaking records where the main prize is a new car. He decides to train his son to break the record for opening and closing doors in twenty-four hours and finds him a coach.

b/w, 35 mm, 94 min
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