A Distant Neighborhood

A Distant Neighborhood (2010) — watch online on iFILM — is a European fantasy drama directed by Sam Garbarski, adapted from the manga Quartier Lointain by Jiro Taniguchi. Thomas, a Frenchman in his fifties, boards the wrong train and ends up back in the town where he grew up. He collapses at his mother's grave and wakes up in his own teenage body.

He has the mind of someone who has already lived forty more years — and the face of a fourteen-year-old. His father is still home, not yet gone. First love is around the corner. Léo Legrand plays the young Thomas; Pascal Greggory inhabits the older self somewhere inside. The film earns its melancholy without pushing for it — a quiet co-production from Belgium, France, Germany, and Luxembourg that lingers after it ends. Stream A Distant Neighborhood online on iFILM.