The Hive

Jun 1, 2022

1h 21m

★ 6.2

Overview

As far as they can remember, Marion, Claire and Louise have been living at the pace of their mother Alice’s ups and downs. Now, love is everything that they have left to fight the spiral of self-destruction in which Alice is sinking even more deeply. An unconditional love as violent as it is indescribable.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Avenue B Productions

Frakas Productions

The Hive Trailers

Cast

Alice

Ludivine Sagnier

Marion

Sophie Breyer

Claire

Mara Taquin

Louise

Bonnie Duvauchelle

Vincent

Tom Vermeir

Samir

Romain Guillermic

Enzo

Arthur Buyssens

Stéphane

Vincent Overath

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