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Dark Fortune (2016)
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Original name: Finsteres Glück
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Late at night, the psychologist Eliane Hess is called to the hospital to take care of Yves, an eight-year-old boy, who just has lost his parents and siblings in a car accident. Eliane is both shocked and curiously drawn to the traumatized boy. As time goes by, she loses the professional distance to the patient, and when Yves' relatives begin a heavy dispute about the boy's future, Eliane makes an unorthodox decision, that throws her life off track.
Style:
tense, melancholic, art house, independent film
Plot:
hospital, trauma, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, obsession, mature, female protagonist, custody battle, intimate, psychologist, car accident, orphan, mother daughter relationship, violent father, little boy, car, flashback, sister sister relationship, stuffed toy, psychological drama, hospital bed
Time:
contemporary
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