Release Date

12 Oct, 1983

Runtime

01:32: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

A psychological drama that details the tormented relationship between Marie and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria. The mother, Eliane had lost a child before Marie was born and was consumed with hatred for her husband who was carrying tuberculosis and may have been the cause of the child's death. That hatred was never resolved, and Marie grew up in a bitter and strained household. As both women grow older, Marie marries and raises a family while her mother sinks ever deeper into anger, frustration, poverty, and isolated despair. She vents her destructive emotions on her daughter and is completely resistant to her daughter's attempts to help her, to make her life better.

Original Title

Les Mots pour le dire

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Actors

Nicole Garcia

Marie-Christine Barrault

Daniel Mesguich

Claude Rich

Jean-Luc Boutté

Michèle Baumgartner

Jean-Louis Foulquier

Robin Renucci

Céline Blanc-Potard

Violaine Gonce

Denise Noël

Bernard Montagner

Annie Noël

Robert Party

Rudolph Monori

Marie Cardinal

Chaabia Laadraoui

Marie-Jo Hareux

Anne-Marie Jabraud

Zakia Tahiri

Adrien Kauffmann

Crew

José Pinheiro