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Release year: 1974

Storyline

Monique is dying. Around her gather her unfaithful husband, her son, who is like his father, and her daughter-in-law. We observe them playing with life as she dies.

Top credits

Directors

Maurice Pialat

Writers

Maurice Pialat

Cast

Nathalie Baye — Nathalie
Hubert Deschamps — Roger le père, 'Le Garçu'
Philippe Léotard — Philippe, le fils
Monique Mélinand — Monique, la mère

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Did you know

• Maurice Pialat wanted to show with that film the cancer and the agony of his own mother. He shot in Auvergne (France), close to where he spent his childhood.

• Philippe Léotard embodies the role of the son, double on the screen of Maurice Pialat. For the role of the daughter-in-law, Pialat chose Nathalie Baye who was at that time the fiancée of Léotard.

• Simone Signoret revealed that Maurice Pialat wanted her for the role of the mother, but she refused. "You know," she said, "I knew the little Pialat well. He even came here to offer me the role. So what? I was surprised. - I gave him back the script and I explained to him: your script is very beautiful, Pialat, but I won't make your film. - Why not? Can you imagine me, Simone, dying of cancer on the Champs-Elysées?"