Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A Month in the Country. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he’ll make her happy on stage – she will shine. But things don’t go to plan. Denis introduces Marcelline to his assistant, Nathalie. The two women were at drama school together twenty years earlier. Nathalie tells her she had to give up acting: she has a husband and children. Marcelline and Nathalie look at each other as if in a mirror, each seeing in the other the life she doesn’t have, the dreams she cannot bear to abandon. Their meeting is the first in a series of tremors that will turn Marcelline’s life upside down. —IMDb

Director

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi has acted in many films since 1986, and has recently been a leading member of the cast in several internationally acclaimed films, such as

If I Were a Rich Man (2002)
the Histoire d’eaux segment in Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
5×2 (2004)
Time to Leave (2005) – in which she played the main female role
Munich (2005)
A Good Year (2006).

She was present at the 2005 Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival, to promote two films she had acted in: Tickets (2005), a three-segment film directed by Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, and Ken Loach, and Crustacés et Coquillages, a comedy directed by the French duo of Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau.

She also played a lead role in the short film Drugstore (2000) ³, as part of a French anti-drug awareness raising campaign read more