2 reviews
Comedy/Drama
1h 32m
1983
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...

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.
- DirectorJosé Pinheiro
- Release12 October 1983
- Genre
- Duration1h 32m
- Budget?
- Revenue?
- Rate2 reviews
- Productions
Stéphan Films, Filmédis, UGC, Belstar Productions, TF1 Films Production
Cast

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

Denise Noël
Nurse

Robert Party
Finchel

Marie Cardinal
Editor

Anne-Marie Jabraud
Metro station chief

Zakia Tahiri
Young tango dancer

Mariusz Pujszo

Léon Zitrone
TV show presenter (uncredited)
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