Emotional Arithmetic [DVD]

Are there wounds that never heal? To what extent do we understand another person, even our romantic partner? Is it necessary to forget to reinvent an existence, to reconquer innocence? In 1945, Jakob Bronski, a young dissident imprisoned in Drancy, decides to protect two children, Melanie and Christopher. Forty years later, Melanie discovers that Jacob is still alive. He had always believed that after being transferred to Auschwitz he had died. He invites you to live on the family farm in Canada. But Jakob doesn't arrive alone, he brings Christopher. Melanie and Christopher must recognize the powerful bond that exists between the two. The past explodes in the present in a tender and unexpected love story that will change their lives and the lives of the beings around them. SARANDON (Oscar for Best Actress for her role in Death Penalty) brings her well-known versatility to give life to the film's central character, Melanie, a complicated, enigmatic and attractive woman who balances her precarious mental health with her intelligence. EMOTIONAL ARITHMETIC is a story of redemption, healing and reconciliation that arises from the meeting of three survivors of Drancy, the internment camp set up by the Germans on the outskirts of Paris during World War II. A love story that historical events drowned and relegated to oblivion, a love story that returns to the light, that resurrects and makes its protagonists live. EMOTIONAL ARITHMETIC, based on the novel of the same name by writer Matt Cohen, stars actors SUSAN SARANDON, GABRIEL BYRNE, MAX VON SYDOW, CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER and ROY DUPUIS.