Film

Babel: A Letter to My Friends Left Behind in Belgium

1991 · 6h 20m · Documentary · Comedy

IMDb

8.3

The film narrates the day-to-day existence of a filmmaker wandering through his city (Brussels) and who has a notion to follow in the footsteps of dramatist Antonin Artaud and visit the Tarahumara people of Mexico. This is a film about intimacy and friendship. Written in the first person, it places Boris and Brussels in the centre of the universe, here represented by the crazy, vertiginous, endless spiral of the biblical Tower. It is Boris's diary and self-portrait. He plays himself on screen (as do the cast of a hundred who also allowed themselves to be “babelised“).

Boris Lehman

self

Nathalie Balou

self

François Beukelaers

self

Maggy Collard

self

Kathleen de Béthune

self

Chistine Defrise

self

• Boris LehmanDirector · Writer

Release date

January 1, 1991

Status

Released

Original language

French

Runtime

6h 20m

Genres

Documentary, Comedy