A grumpy French grandpa vs. his widowed daughter-in-law in the pettiest rural feud ever committed to celluloid.
Celeste has failed with Victor and has a little boy. Césaire would still like to marry Céleste, a beautiful and hard-working girl. His father, old Amable, did not hear him that way but ended up giving in. Less than a year later, Césaire dies. Between Father Amable and his daughter-in-law, a cold and silent war begins.
Acting
Fernand Ledoux's magnificent scowl could curdle milk.
Direction
Santelli lets silence do the screaming.
Director
Claude Santelli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1975 TV film adapts Guy de Maupassant's 1885 short story, preserving its brutal rural realism for a medium that rarely attempted such grim material.
Diane Kurys, who plays Phémie, would later become an acclaimed director herself—her 1977 film 'Diabolo menthe' won multiple Césars.
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