Having received a frosty reception when visiting her parents, Martha drags her husband Reymond and infant daughter Lise to Spain, to renew her acquaintance with her estranged sister Marie. After a quarrel, Marthe and her family return to France, where the young mother shows signs of increasing mental instability. Abandoning her family, Marthe goes to town to get drunk and ends up being raped. With Marthe in a psychiatric hospital, Reymond is left to take care of Lise alone whilst struggling to make a living selling second hand clothes in an open-air market. When Marthe leaves hospital, Reymond takes her and Lise to a holiday home in the country. But Martha’s illness is far from cured…
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Cast
13 people
Valérie Donzelli
Martha
Known for
Declaration of War
Notre Dame
Yann Goven
Reymond
Known for
My King
Far from Men
Sandrine Veysset
Sébastien Régnier
Humbert Balsan
Known for
Loulou
Lancelot of the Lake
Lucie Régnier
Lise
Also in
Il sera 1 fois...
Lydia Andréï
Marie
Known for
Squad 36
Nightcap
Lydia Andrei
Marie
Séverine Vincent
Michèle
Javier Cruz
Juan
Known for
Student Services
Pierre Pezon
M. Lambert
Catherine Ferran
Martha's mother
Known for
Baxter
Bird People
Sandrine Veysset Director · Sébastien Regnier Screenplay
Worldwide gross $46K · First release October 3, 2001 · Produced in France
Box office
Worldwide gross
$45,978
Production
CNC
Production
Canal+
Production
ARTE France Cinéma
Production
France
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Languages
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French · Spanish
Release dates
France · October 3, 2001
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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