Overview - La limace et l'escargot

Overview

Two limping souls in their sixties collide – literally – on a street corner. What begins as a clumsy accident becomes a quiet spark. Over coffee, they linger. They talk. And just like that, an unlikely intimacy begins to bloom. The Slug and the Snail traces the gentle unfurling of a connection born not of urgency, but of presence of two bodies long ignored by the tempo of the world, finding rhythm in each other. Anne Benhaïem’s film is a tender ode to queer aging, to liminality, to love that doesn't need to shout to be heard. With stripped-down direction and performances that pulse with lived-in truth, the film crafts a space of radical softness. It speaks to loneliness without pity, to affection without spectacle. It reminds us that desire doesn’t fade, it just changes shape. Benhaïem herself plays one half of the duo, bringing a raw, honest magnetism that makes the story feel lived rather than performed. This is cinema as whisper, as mirror, as gentle rebellion.

Cast

• Name: Anne Benhaïem

  Character: Anne / La limace

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• Name: Serge Blazevic

  Character: L'escargot

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• Name: Pascale Bodet

  Character: Pascale

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• Name: Bojena Horackova

  Character: Bojena

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• Name: Sylvie Willot

  Character: La psy

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• Name: Nans Laborde-Jourdàa

  Character: La docteur

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