Call Me Elisabeth
Released: 2006
Drama
A 10 year old girl lives in post WWII rural France with her parents, who are about to divorce. Her older sister leaves home to finish school, and the young girl is left with a mysterious, almost silent housekeeper. Being afraid of the dark, and of other "phenomenoms" including a haunted château nearby, she curiously accepts a stranger she finds in her mansion's barn. This fact contradicts her fearful nature, but fulfills her loneliness. The stranger has run away from a nearby psychiatric clinic, where her father was treating the stranger. She hides the stranger, protects him, and he becomes her best friend. Is this girl searching for true companionship, coming of age, or is she asserting her independence for the first time in her short life?
Starring: Alba Gaïa Bellugi, Stéphane Freiss, Maria de Medeiros, Yolande Moreau, Benjamin Ramon, Lauriane Sire, Daniel Znyk
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Améris
Written by: Guillaume Laurant, Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Améris
Language: French
Scenes
Yvon (Benjamin Ramon) escapes from an asylum and hides in a storage shed with the aid of 10-year-old Betty/Elisabeth (Alba Gaïa Kraghede Bellugi). After he is locked in for a whole day, Betty opens the shed to find him very desperate. Yvon immediately goes off-screen to pee.
A boy asks Betty to bring a small bottle of her urine to school for a magic experiment, but instead he shows it to the other kids and makes fun of her.
Alternate Titles
叫我伊丽莎白