In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.
Direction
Moreau's only film as director—intimate, unsparing, deeply personal.
Acting
Signoret's grandmother simmers with unspoken knowledge.
Cinematography
Golden Provence light against gathering storm clouds of 1939.
Director
Jeanne Moreau
Simone Signoret
Mamie
Francis Huster
Alexandre
Laetitia Chauveau
Marie
Edith Clever
Eva, la mère
Jacques Weber
Jean
Jean-François Balmer
André, le menuisier
Hugues Quester
Le fils du forgeron
Roger Blin
Romain
Maurice Baquet
Jules, le cantonnier
Nadine Basile
Rose, épouse du contonnier
Françoise Bette
Violette
Michel Blanc
M. Bertin
Bérangère Bonvoisin
La fille du maire
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Moreau adapted her own semi-autobiographical novel; the Jewish doctor's presence in 1939 Provence carries unspoken historical weight the film never addresses directly.
Laetitia Chauveau was 14 and had never acted; Moreau found her in a Paris school and coached her through scenes of overwhelming emotional complexity.
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