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Gilles' Wife
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Gilles' Wife

Sep 15, 2004
1h 43m
★ 5.8

Overview

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?

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Artémis Productions
Liaison Cinématographique
Samsa Film
Eyescreen
Fama Film
France 3 Cinéma
Eurimages
Wallimage
Cofimage 15
Canal+
RTBF
Nord-Ouest Films

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Cast

Emmanuelle Devos

Elisa

Emmanuelle Devos

Clovis Cornillac

Gilles

Clovis Cornillac

Laura Smet

Victorine

Laura Smet

Dean Constantin

Dancer Valse / Tango / Java.

Dean Constantin

Colette Emmanuelle

La mère d'Élisa

Colette Emmanuelle

No Image

Le père d'Élisa

Gil Lagay

No Image

La jumelle #1

Alice Verlinden

No Image

La jumelle #2

Chloé Verlinden

Yoann Blanc

L'homme à la cigarette

Yoann Blanc

Philippe Jeusette

L'ouvrier moqueur

Philippe Jeusette

Benjamin Ramon

Le jeune danseur

Benjamin Ramon

Jean-François Wolff

Le patron du café

Jean-François Wolff