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La femme de Gilles

Belgium / France / Luxembourg / Italy / Switzerland, September 2004
FILM, Fiction, 103 min.

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directed by
Frédéric Fonteyne
Written by
Frédéric Fonteyne
Status
In distribution
Website
www.lafemmedegilles.com

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 younger sister Victorine often visits, to play with the children and help
out around 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 become 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.

credits

World Premiere
September 2004
Original Version
French,  colour, 35mm, 103 min.
Production
Artémis Productions, Liaison Cinématographique, Samsa Film, Nord-Ouest Productions, Eyescreen, FAMA FILM AG
Producer
directed by
Frédéric Fonteyne
Written by
Frédéric Fonteyne
Editing
Erwin Ryckaert
Music
Vincent d'Hondt
Location Sound Mix
Carlo Thoss
Production Design
Manu Kamanda

Cast

Emmanuelle Devos
Clovis Cornillac
Laura Smet
Alice Verlinden
Chloé Verlinden
Colette Emmanuelle
Gil Lagay

World Sales / World Rights

World Sales
Good Fellas

Worldwide Distribution

Switzerland
Fama Film Distribution Distribution
Release date: tba

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