Three sisters who share a connection to a violent childhood incident reunite for the chance to come to terms with their past.
Acting
Béart, Viard, Gillain — three women destroying you softly.
Direction
Tanović's surgical precision with family dysfunction.
Writing
Dialogue that wounds without shouting.
Director
Danis Tanović
Emmanuelle Béart
Sophie
Karin Viard
Céline
Marie Gillain
Anne
Guillaume Canet
Sébastien
Jacques Gamblin
Pierre
Jacques Perrin
Frédéric
Carole Bouquet
Marie, la mère
Predrag 'Miki' Manojlović
Antoin, le père
Jean Rochefort
Louis
Maryam D'Abo
Julie
Gaëlle Bona
Joséphine
Georges Siatidis
Le contrôleur du train
Serge-Henri Valcke
Le libraire
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released after Tanović's 2001 Oscar for 'No Man's Land,' this was his deliberate pivot from war satire to intimate domestic horror.
The title 'Hell' (original: 'L'Enfer') references the middle circle of Dante's Inferno — violence against others — but also Sartre's 'No Exit': hell is other people, especially family.
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