After the death of the celebrated writer Victor Adelman, a journalist pays
a call on his widow, Sarah Adelman, in the hope of extracting from her an
account of her married life. It was back in 1971 that Sarah first met
Victor and soon after became his muse. She fell passionately in love
both with the author and his work, and despite the objections of her future
in-laws, they duly married. It was not to be the easiest of marriages,
although it lasted 45 years. An egocentric and tormented soul, Victor
objected to his wife's bourgeois tendencies as he himself found fame through
his work. The woman who had been so free and uninhibited when he first
met her finally began to bore him, so he sought distraction in the company
of other women. How Victor made Sarah suffered, almost as if he did
it deliberately to spite her...
Cast: Doria Tillier (Sarah Adelman),
Nicolas Bedos (Victor Adelman),
Denis Podalydès (Le psy),
Antoine Gouy (Le journaliste),
Christiane Millet (Mme de Richemont),
Pierre Arditi (Claude de Richemont),
Zabou Breitman (La directrice d'école),
Julien Boisselier (Antoine de Richemont),
Jean-Pierre Lorit (Marc),
Nicolas Briançon (Le pédiatre),
Betty Reicher (La mère de Sarah),
Ronald Guttman (Le père de Sarah),
Solange Najman (La grand-mère de Sarah),
Solveig Maupu (La soeur de Victor),
Lucie Fagedet (Chloé à 14 ans),
Lola Bessis (Mélanie, l'étudiante),
Julie Delarme (Chloé adulte),
Grégoire Tachnakian (Philippe, l'ami de Victor),
Joakim Latzko (Pablo),
Fleur Geffrier (Marion)
Country: France / Belgium
Language: French
Support: Color
Runtime: 120 min
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