What age is Just a Breath Away (Dans la brume) appropriate for?

12 alone, 11 with a parent; 12 in France. The whole movie, watched in full: what's in it, and how to talk about it with your child.

Why is Just a Breath Away (Dans la brume) not recommended under 12?

What's in it: our reading; a killing mist, bodies across Paris; a sick daughter in a bubble; the rest. The detail, fact by fact, is in the zinema guide, which reads the work itself (images, sound, dialogue).

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Just a Breath Away (Dans la brume): what age is it for? 12 alone, 11 with a parent

12 alone, 11 with a parent.

Movie · 2018 · 1 h 30 · drama, science fiction, thriller

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The trailer

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not yetwith an adult, or to talk about afteralone

Alone from 12; from 11, with an adult or by talking about it afterwards.

In France, zinema would say 12.

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What it's about

When a deadly mist engulfs Paris, people find refuge in the upper floors of the buildings. With no information, no electricity and hardly any supplies, Mathieu, Anna and their daughter Sarah try to survive the disaster.

Why 12

Our readingNot rated in the US. We say 12: Paris under a killing mist, bodies and a sick girl in a bubble, in a survival suspense: twelve, eleven with an adult.
reading
A killing mist, bodies across ParisA mist floods the city and kills everything it touches: bodies in the streets and flats, a neighbour dying before our eyes, blood at the centre of the frame for half a minute in all. The film is a survival chamber piece on the rooftops.
A sick daughter in a bubbleThe couple's daughter lives in a sterile bubble, and her parents go down into the mist to save her; the dread holds the whole film, with distant gunfire, fights over supplies, and an ending that only half reassures.
The restSome ten swear words, cigarettes; no sex.

What the movie brings

Paris as an end-of-the-world set, filmed for real, a rare idea in French cinema.
Parents ready to die for their daughter, and a daughter who must end up saving herself.
A disaster film without a monster, where fear comes from what you cannot see.

Watching it together

Before

Warn that people die in the street and that the ending is not entirely happy; stay close with an eleven-year-old.

After

at 12 and up

The parents risk their lives on every trip down: when should they have stopped?

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