
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.
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Nicole Garcia as Marie Saint-Jean

Marie-Christine Barrault as Eliane Saint-Jean

Daniel Mesguich as Psychoanalyst

Claude Rich as Guillaume Talbiac

Jean-Luc Boutté as François

Michèle Baumgartner as Michèle

Jean-Louis Foulquier as Bertheas

Robin Renucci as Marie's father

Céline Blanc-Potard as Jeanne

Violaine Gonce as Marie, child

Denise Noël as Nurse

Bernard Montagner as Intern

Annie Noël as Nurse

Robert Party as Finchel

Rudolph Monori as Rudolph

Marie Cardinal as Editor

Chaabia Laadraoui as Nany

Marie-Jo Hareux as Woman at the bar

Anne-Marie Jabraud as Metro station chief

Zakia Tahiri as Young tango dancer

Adrien Kauffmann as Aristide

Guillaume as Child

Mariusz Pujszo as

Tomasz Białkowski as

Jean Dolande as

Mitzi Hahn as

Maud Léthéo as

Christiane Meriel as

Gérard Lester as (uncredited)

Léon Zitrone as TV show presenter (uncredited)
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