A bourgeois housewife, planning to go back to work as a physiotherapist after having devoted 20 years to her husband and two children, has her comfortable, elegant life turned upside down when she falls for a Spanish builder and begins a runaway affair.
Acting
KST's trembling restraint exploding into unhinged abandon.
Direction
Corsini captures desire without sanitizing its mess.
Cinematography
Sun-drenched Provence as beautiful prison, then escape.
Director
Catherine Corsini
Kristin Scott Thomas
Suzanne
Sergi López
Ivan
Yvan Attal
Samuel
Bernard Blancan
Rémi
Daisy Broom
Marion
Aladin Reibel
Dubreuil
Berta Esquirol
Berta
Gérard Lartigau
Lagache
Geneviève Casile
La mère de Samuel
Philippe Laudenbach
Le père de Samuel
Michèle Ernou
Mme Aubouy
Hélène Babu
Dorothée
Jonathan Cohen
Le banquier
Philippe Beglia
L'antiquaire
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kristin Scott Thomas learned Spanish specifically for this role, insisting on doing her own scenes with Sergi López without subtitles in her head.
Corsini cited Brief Encounter as influence but wanted to strip away the British restraint—this is what happens when Laura actually runs away with Alec, consequences and all.
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