What do you do when the wife you know as frigid and fragile suddenly begins acting entirely normally? Mathilde (Sandrine Kiberlain), married to surgeon Nico (Vincent Lindon) and the mother of 7-year-old Arthur, would be fading into the background of her own
bourgeois Parisian life if the signs of her unhappiness weren't so troubling. She's given up working at the law firm her mother runs and walks the streets aimlessly, sometimes stopping into a department store to shoplift toys. Her perambulations frequently bring her across the path of an older man
(Francois Berleand), whom she tries to avoid. But one afternoon she's caught lifting some trifles from a shop, faint...
Released:
1997
Rated:
NR
Length:
91 mins