Monsieur de Fontenelle has resisted feelings of love and passion all his life, but at an advanced age he meets a young woman who makes him discover the feeling he has always wanted to ignore: love.
Acting
Michel Serrault's magnificent grump-to-mush transformation.
Costume
Sumptuous 18th-century wigs worth the runtime alone.
Director
Philippe Monnier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the real Bernard de Fontenelle, a French philosopher who actually lived to 99 and supposedly never loved. The film dares to imagine: what if he was just scared?
Michel Serrault was 74 playing 97—Hollywood would cast a 50-year-old with 'aging' makeup. French cinema said 'hold my wine.'
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