Cages 17 years old

Eve is an emergency medical technician who falls in love with Damien (Sagamore Stévenin), a handsome and caring man who runs a neighborhood bar in the Belgian countryside. When Damien and Eve become a couple, she joins him in looking after the bar and becomes friendly with the regular customers, but things take an unexpected turn when Eve is in a serious auto accident. While Eve walks away with no serious physical injuries, she's emotionally ravaged by the experience, and develops a severe speech impediment. Eve's new stutter makes it hard for her to communicate with Damien and she becomes the butt of jokes from the customers. Eve is increasingly isolated and Damien takes up with another woman until Eve retaliates by trapping him in their home and forces him to re-establish the building blocks of their relationship, starting with their sexual communication. Meanwhile, Eve's struggle to speak is contrasted with one of the tavern's annual events, an animal calling contest.

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Cages Cast

Name Character
Sagamore Stévenin He was 32, now 49 years old as Damien
Adel Bencherif He was 31, now 48 years old as Rabbah
Anne Coesens She was 39, now 56 years old as Eve
Micheline Goethals as Léa
Michel Angely as Bernard
Nasser Zerkoune as Ali

Cages Crew

Name Department
Olivier Masset-Depasse as Director. He was 36 (now 53) years old Directing
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Cages (17 years)

  • Release day: Wednesday, May 09, 2007
  • Runtime: 86 minutes