Nearly two years after winning the Best Actress Oscar for THE ENGLISH PATIENT, Juliette Binoche finally returns to the screen for a reunion with one of her first directors, Andre Techine. Their second film together (the first was 1985's RENDEZVOUS) marks a return of sorts
for Techine as well; he rebounds from the mediocre thriller LES VOLEURS with this finely tuned example of his preferred genre, the family drama. At the age of 10, Martin Sauvagnac (Jeremy Kreikenmayer) is sent by his mother (early Almodovar regular Carmen Maura) to live with the father he never
really knew, a wealthy married man named Victor (Pierre Maguelon). Ten years later, Martin (Alexis Loret...
Released:
1999
Rated:
R
Length:
124 mins