Les mots pour le dire
Les mots pour le dire
Release: 1983-10-12
·Runtime: 92m
·★ 6.5
Comedy
Drama
A psychological drama that details the tormented relationship between Marie and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria. The mother, Eliane had lost a child before Marie was born and was consumed with hatred for her husband who was carrying tuberculosis and may have been the cause of the child's death. That hatred was never resolved, and Marie grew up in a bitter and strained household. As both women grow older, Marie marries and raises a family while her mother sinks ever deeper into anger, frustration, poverty, and isolated despair. She vents her destructive emotions on her daughter and is completely resistant to her daughter's attempts to help her, to make her life better.
Production Countries
France
Production Companies
Stéphan Films
Filmédis
UGC
Belstar Productions
TF1 Films Production
Cast
Denise Noël
as Nurse
Mariusz Pujszo
Nicole Garcia
as Marie Saint-Jean
Jean-Luc Boutté
as François
Marie Cardinal
as Editor
Anne-Marie Jabraud
as Metro station chief
Léon Zitrone
as TV show presenter (uncredited)
Marie-Christine Barrault
as Eliane Saint-Jean
Daniel Mesguich
as Psychoanalyst
Claude Rich
as Guillaume Talbiac
Zakia Tahiri
as Young tango dancer
Michèle Baumgartner
as Michèle
Robin Renucci
as Marie's father
Robert Party
as Finchel
Jean-Louis Foulquier
as Bertheas
