Coping with the bad end of a doomed love affair, and her mother’s death, Marianne is surprised to discover that her father’s last will and testament was not correctly administered. The will reveals the existence of a lover, Beatrice, who is still alive and living beside the sea not far from Marianne’s childhood family home. Her journey to find this mysterious woman takes Marianne to places and people from her childhood that she thought she’d left behind forever. —uniFrance
Jean-Paul Civeyrac (born 24 December 1964) is a French New Wave director whose films are usually characterized by close attention to music and actors’ bodies. He has adapted a French novel by Anne Wiazemsky, Hymnes à l’amour, with the title All the fine promises (2003). This movie was awarded by The Prix Jean Vigo 2003. Jean-Paul Civeyrac is professor at the French school, La Femis, and graduated from the University Lyon III (philosophy). His movie À travers la forêt was presented at Festival Paris Cinéma (2 July 2005) and at Toronto International Film Festival 2005 September. —Wikipedia