24 Hours in the Life of a Woman

Romantic drama which deals with the folly of love when it is one-sided or occurs between people who are unsuited. At the turn of the 20th Century, in a casino on the Riviera the respectable Marie Collins-Brown spends the most intense twenty-four hours of her life with incorrigible gambler Anton. She tries to make him give up his gambling ways, but fails. Twenty years later, she confides her secret to an adolescent horrified by the behaviour of her mother. At the start of the 21st Century, Louis, the heir to the secret, is becoming an old disillusioned man who thinks only of his imminent end. An accidental encounter with a young woman Olivia changes him completely, as he is enchanted by her beauty and vitality. —BFI