An Impossible Love

At the end of the 50s, Rachel, a young office clerk in a provincial town, meets Philippe, a well-educated man from a wealthy family. At the end of the 1950s, Rachel, a young office clerk living in a provincial town, meets Philippe, a well-educated man from a wealthy family. They share an intense but short-lived romance, from which a daughter is born. Over the next 50 years, their lives will be shaped by the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, overshadowed by the impossible love of a woman for a man that rejects her, and of a daughter for an absent and abusive father.

Keywords

  • (Un)happy Valentine !
  • Based on a True Story
  • Female Filmmakers
  • Focus: Virginie Efira
  • Impossible Love
  • International Film Festival Rotterdam
  • Love Story
  • Just released
  • Romance
  • The Future is Female
  • True Story

Actors

  • Niels Schneider
  • Coralie Russier
  • Catherine Morlot
  • Gaël Kamilindi
  • Pierre Salvadori
  • Sasha Alessandri-Torrès Garcia
  • Estelle Lescure
  • Jehnny Beth
  • Iliana Zabeth
  • Didier Sandre
  • Virginie Efira
  • Ambre Hasaj
  • Simon Bakhouche

Director

  • Catherine Corsini

Drama


2h 15min


-12

FR

France
Belgium
2018
At the end of the 50s, Rachel, a young office clerk in a provincial town, meets Philippe, a well-educated man from a wealthy family.

At the end of the 50s, Rachel, a young office clerk in a provincial town, meets Philippe, a well-educated man from a wealthy family.


At the end of the 50s, Rachel, a young office clerk in a provincial town, meets Philippe, a well-educated man from a wealthy family.


At the end of the 1950s, Rachel, a young office clerk living in a provincial town, meets Philippe, a well-educated man from a wealthy family. They share an intense but short-lived romance, from which a daughter is born. Over the next 50 years, their lives will be shaped by the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, overshadowed by the impossible love of a woman for a man that rejects her, and of a daughter for an absent and abusive father.

Festivals

Cast & Crew