BENCH PRESS
Laura and Charlotte meet every week at the gym, Laura has just met someone, she’s in love,
but from week to week, her love story seems less and less romantic. Max comes to the gym to please his girlfriend, Zoe. When she suggests being in an open relationship, once again he does not want to disappoint her, but he’ll soon regret it. Allan hates sport, but he comes here in the hope of meeting Charlotte, his ex, again.
Conversations between friends, lovers, ex-lover at the gym.
Director: Audrey Guibert
Belgium, 2023
15:00 min
After studying political science in Bordeaux and working in Sao Paolo for the audiovisual department of the French Consulate. Audrey moved to Brussels in 2016 to study editing at INSAS school. She has made several self-produced films and now alternates between films made shortly with few money, and long-term projects. She also works as a scriptwriter and editor.
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