La femme de Gilles

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?

Keywords

  • Belgium
  • Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis
  • Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis (home)
  • Made with Luxembourg
  • relationship
  • seduction

Actors

  • Gil Lagay
  • Philippe Jeusette
  • Alice Verlinden
  • Chloé Verlinden
  • Jean-François Wolff
  • Benjamin Ramon
  • Clovis Cornillac
  • Emmanuelle Devos
  • Colette Emmanuelle
  • Laura Smet
  • Yoann Blanc

Director

  • Frédéric Fonteyne

Drama, Romance

1h 43min

tous publics

FR

Italy
France
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Belgium
2004
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?

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?


Cast & Crew