Les mots pour le dire
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A psychological drama that details the tormented relationship between Marie and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria. The mother, Eliane had lost a child before Marie was born and was consumed with hatred for her husband who was carrying tuberculosis and may have been the cause of the child's death. That hatred was never resolved, and Marie grew up in a bitter and strained household. As both women grow older, Marie marries and raises a family while her mother sinks ever deeper into anger, frustration, poverty, and isolated despair. She vents her destructive emotions on her daughter and is completely resistant to her daughter's attempts to help her, to make her life better.
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Edited by Claire PinheiroShot by Gerry FisherScored by Jean Marie SeniaDesigned by Ivan Maussion
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- Schattenmundde
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20 unique people credited
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Nicole Garcia
as Marie Saint-Jean
Marie Christine Barrault
as Eliane Saint-Jean
Daniel Mesguich
as Le psychanalyste
Claude Rich
as Guillaume Talbiac
Jean Luc Boutte
as François
Michele Baumgartner
as Michèle
Jean Louis Foulquier
as Bertheas
Robin Renucci
as Le père de Marie
Celine Blanc Potard
as Jeanne
Violaine Gonce
as Marie, enfant
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