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A psychological drama that details the tormented relationship between Marie and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria. The mother, Eliane had lost a child before Marie was born and was consumed with hatred for her husband who was carrying tuberculosis and may have been the cause of the child's death. That hatred was never resolved, and Marie grew up in a bitter and strained household. As both women grow older, Marie marries and raises a family while her mother sinks ever deeper into anger, frustration, poverty, and isolated despair. She vents her destructive emotions on her daughter and is completely resistant to her daughter's attempts to help her, to make her life better.
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A psychological drama that details the tormented relationship between Marie and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria. The mother, Eliane had lost a child before Marie was born and was consumed with hatred for her husband who was carrying tuberculosis and may have been the cause of the child's death. That hatred was never resolved, and Marie grew up in a bitter and strained household. As both women grow older, Marie marries and raises a family while her mother sinks ever deeper into anger, frustration, poverty, and isolated despair. She vents her destructive emotions on her daughter and is completely resistant to her daughter's attempts to help her, to make her life better.
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Genre:Comedy, Drama
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Runtime:92 minutes
Studio:Stéphan Films, Filmédis, UGC, Belstar Productions, TF1 Films Production
Cast
José Pinheiro
Director
Nicole Garcia
Marie Saint-Jean
Marie-Christine Barrault
Eliane Saint-Jean
Daniel Mesguich
Psychoanalyst
Claude Rich
Guillaume Talbiac
Jean-Luc Boutté
François
Michèle Baumgartner
Michèle
Jean-Louis Foulquier
Bertheas
Robin Renucci
Marie's father
Céline Blanc-Potard
Jeanne
Violaine Gonce
Marie, child
Denise Noël
Nurse
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