«Stand by»

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Georges Corraface plays the client in the parking lot.
Also starring: Dominique Blanc, Roschdy Zem, Patrick Catalifo, Jean-Luc Bideau.
Directed by: Roch Stephanik.
Produced by: Maurice Bernat.
Distributed by: Président Classics.
Date: 1999
Awards: Avignon Film Festival (Best shooting), Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (Best Film), César Awards, France (Best actress, Dominique Blanc), Montréal World Film Festival (First film special distinction).

Synopsis:
Helen (Dominique Blanc) and her husband Gerard (Patrick Catalifo) are at the Paris Orly Airport, about to board a plane for Buenos Aires where Gerard is starting a new job. At the check-in counter, he informs her that he wants to start a new life and intends to leaves without her.

Helen goes into shock and from then on haunts the airport like a ghost, never resuming her former identity. A new Helene slowly emerges through a series of encounters.

Georges plays the part of a businessman arriving in town whom she selects as her first mark when she decides to make some money to get by while living in the airport’s No Man’s Land.