Gilles' Wife
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Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?
Status: Released
Released Date: 2004-09-15
Runtime: 103 mins
Director: Frédéric Fonteyne
Writer: Frédéric Fonteyne, Philippe Blasband, Marion Hänsel
Spoken language: Français
Genres: Drama
Original title: Gilles' Wife
Production Companies: Artémis Productions, Liaison Cinématographique, Samsa Film, Eyescreen, Fama Film, France 3 Cinéma, Eurimages, Wallimage, Cofimage 15, Canal+, RTBF, Nord-Ouest Films
Production Countries: France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Italy
Cast
Emmanuelle Devos
Clovis Cornillac
Laura Smet
Dean Constantin
Colette Emmanuelle
Gil Lagay
Alice Verlinden
Chloé Verlinden
Yoann Blanc
Philippe Jeusette
Benjamin Ramon
Jean-François Wolff
Patrick Quinet
Geoffrey Magbag
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