My Name is Victor

My Name is Victor — Plot

No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in attics and basements over the years. In this wry comedy, Basile is an eleven-year old boy living in a rural French town (along with his mother) with his grandparents. He has the usual boyish adventures in town, punctuated with odd goings-on brought about by events which take place in his grandfather's crocodile farm. However, there is a deep rivalry between his grandmother and her wheelchair-bound half-sister, Cecile, who has kept hidden from the world (and her family), and has lived in the attic for decades. Basile eventually feels the wrongness of her situation and feels that he may be the reincarnation of Victor, Cecile's long-lost lover. Eventually things come to a head in a confrontation which provides the town gossips with material for years to come.

• Release date
• March 16, 1993
• Runtime
• 102 min
• Director
• Guy Jacques

My Name is Victor — Cast

Jeanne Moreau Rose Micheline Presle Luce Dominique Pinon Bernard Julien Guiomar Emile

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Claudio Bucella Basile Brigitte Bémol Cécile Maria Schrader Yvette Ernst Jacobi Milos