Our Children

Our Children
Film poster
Directed byJoachim Lafosse
Written byJoachim Lafosse
Produced byJacques-Henri Bronckart
Olivier Bronckart
StarringÉmilie Dequenne
Niels Arestrup
Tahar Rahim
CinematographyJean-François Hensgens
Edited bySophie Vercruysse
Release date
  • 22 May 2012 (2012-05-22) (Cannes)
Running time
111 minutes[1]
CountriesBelgium
France
LanguagesFrench
Arabic
Budget$7.2 million[2]
Box office$700,000[3]

Our Children (French: À perdre la raison) is a 2012 Belgian-French psychological drama film directed by Joachim Lafosse. It is based on a real-life incident involving a woman (Geneviève Lhermitte) who killed her five children. The film competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival under the title Loving Without Reason,[4][5] where Émilie Dequenne won the Un Certain Regard Award for Best Actress.[6]

  1. ^ "À perdre la raison – Our Children (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 16 April 2013. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  2. ^ JP. "A perdre la raison (Our Children) (2012)- JPBox-Office". jpbox-office.com. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  3. ^ "Our Children (2013) - International Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  4. ^ "2012 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
  5. ^ "7 Days in Havana officially selected for Cannes Film Festival 2012". katniss. Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
  6. ^ Cannes (27 May 2012). "Awards 2012". festival-cannes.fr. Cannes Film Festival. Retrieved 27 May 2012.