CALL ME VICTOR

English Title: CALL ME VICTOR

Some say childhood ends when you fall in love. Eleven-year-old Basile is seeing his childhood slip away daily as he becomes more and more infatuated with Cecile, who's 16. But she's already going out with a jealous motorcycle type. Basile's eccentric family doesn't help much. Grandfather is forever flooding the house by falling asleep at the tap of his crocodile pond; grandma is bitter about past and present; mom's never around; and Uncle Bernard would make a play for Cecile himself of he thought he had a ghost of a chance. Only one person-his great-aunt Rose (the ever beautiful Jeanne Moreau), who hasn't left the attic for 30 years-take Basile's longing seriously. Basile will try anything. He tries to lure Cecile to a magic island. He wills a train to stop, using a spell of scattered lettuce leaves. He appropriates Rose's memories and “reincarnates” as her long-dead fiance Victor. And somehow it all works. CALL ME VICTOR is sweet and sharp, like a bite of French chocolate with the foil wrapper left on. In French with English subtitles.