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La femme de Gilles

Director(s):	Frédéric Fonteyne
Producer(s):	SAMSA FILM Artémis Productions (BE), LC Productions (FR), Nord-Ouest Productions (FR), Eyescreen (IT), Fama Film (CH), Média Services (BE)
Script:	Philippe Blasband, Frédéric Fonteyne, together with Marion Hänsel
Year:	2004
Form:	FICTION - Feature film
Genre:	Drama
Original version:	French
Running time:	90'

Synopsis

A working class district in rural France, between the Wars. Elisa is Gilles’ wife. She takes care of their children, and spends each day waiting for her husband to return home. Gilles works in the blast furnaces - sometimes by day, sometimes at night. The furnaces never shut down. Elisa’s sister, Victorine, often visits, to play with the children and help out in the house. Elisa is pregnant. She’s troubled by strange suspicions. Gilles and Victorine, Victorine and Gilles... but they’re just crazy ideas. Expectant mothers often get crazy ideas. Then one day, her suspicions becomes an unbearable certainty. Gilles and Victorine are lovers. Stunned, Elisa begins an interior battle, a battle of silence and a desperate, self abnegating heroism. A battle to recover what she has lost. To become, once again, Gilles’ wife. Featuring powerful performances, including an extraordinary tour-de-force from Emmanuelle Devos, Gilles’ Wife is a tragic and heart-rending portrayal of betrayed love and heroic self-immolation, a very human drama of passion and ultimate redemption from the internationally feted acclaimed director of Une Liaison Pornographique

Casting

Emmanuelle DEVOS
Clovis CORNILLAC
Laura SMET
Alice & Chloé Verlinden
Colette Emmanuelle
Gil Lagay

Crew

DOP : Virginie Saint-Martin
Set decorations : Véronique Sacrez
Sound : Carlo Thoss
Perchman : Philippe Kohn
Costume design : Anne Fournier
Casting Luxembourg : Valérie Schiel
Photography : Jean-Paul Kieffer
Music : Vincent d'Hondt
SFX : Alain Couty
Make up : Mabi Anzalone, Aurélie Elich et Béatrice Stéphany, Fabienne Adam, Claudine Moureaud
Editor : Ewin Ryckaert, Pia Dumont

Nominations & Awards

Venice Film Festival 2004 - Competition
Award(s) : C.I.C.A.E. Award
Toronto International Film Festival 2004
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2005
Göteborg Film Festival 2005
Mar del Plata International Film Festival 2005
Award(s) : Best Actress
Istanbul Film Festival 2005
Award(s) : Golden Tulip
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2005
T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival 2005
Festival do Rio 2005

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