Pieds nus sur les limaces (2010) Directed by Fabienne Berthaud
Comedy / Drama
aka: Lily Sometimes
Film Synopsis
To look at them, you would scarcely imagine that Clara and Lily were sisters.
Married to a successful lawyer named Pierre, Clara is the very model of the
sophisticated modern woman. Organised and meticulous, she appears to
be the exact opposite of her free-spirited younger sibling Lily, who lives
for the moment and is a picture of carefree exuberance. The two sisters
have lived fairly separate lives - Clara in the city, Lily in the country
- until the tragic day when their mother suffers a fatal stroke at the wheel
of her car. Concerned over what may happen to her sister now that she
no longer has her mother to look after her, Clara leaves her home in the
city and moves back into the old family home in the country. Clara
had intended to act as Lily's guardian, to bring some order into her hopelessly
chaotic life, but things do not turn out as expected. Under her younger
sister's influence, Clara starts to see the world differently. She
acquires something of Lily's lust for life and soon becomes a very different
woman - freer and happier than she has ever known...
Cast:Diane Kruger (Clara),
Ludivine Sagnier (Lily),
Denis Menochet (Pierre),
Brigitte Catillon (Odile - la mère de Pierre),
Jacques Spiesser (Paul - le père de Pierre),
Anne Benoît (Mireille),
Jean-Pierre Martins (Jonas),
Gaëtan Gallier (Dan),
Reda Kateb (Seb),
Côme Levin (Paulo),
Arthur Orcier (Guillaume),
Mathias Melloul (Laurent),
Lionel Briand (Invité dîner),
Nicole Choukroun (Dame pique-nique),
Laurence Cormerais (Invitée dîner),
Gérard Dubouche (Mari pique-nique),
Arnaud Duléry (Jo),
Grigori Manoukov (Le prêtre),
David Marchal (Avocat - collègue de Pierre),
Anny Romand (La mère de Clara et Lily)
Country: France
Language: French
Support: Color
Runtime: 108 min
Aka: Lily Sometimes
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