Movie Details
Original Language:French
Cast & Crew
M
Michelle Léger
as La Mère de Manon
B
Bastien Ehouzan
as Francesco
Manon on the Asphalt
Audience Score
On a day in early summer two young men play squash a lifeguard watches an indoor pool a young woman shelves books at a store another stages a puppet show for children in a park an older woman cooks and Manon gets on her bicycle to ride to a rendezvous with her boyfriend She turns a corner Something happens As she lies on the asphalt a crowd gathers around her and an ambulance arrives we hear her voice first confused as to what has happened then telling us how her friends and her mother will receive word and how her friends will gather to talk As images move back and forth in time she remembers recent events and expresses some small regrets
