April in Love

Avril

France

2006

96 Min

Color

1.85:1

French

Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
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PROD Isabelle Madelaine, Luc Besson

CAST Sophie Quinton, Miou-Miou, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Clément Sibony, Richaud Valls, Geneviève Casile, Monique Mélinand, Anna Mihalcea, Claude Duty, Frédéric Quiring

April has been living in the “Trappistines of the Strict Observance” for 21 years. She was abandoned at birth in front of this isolated convent and raised by the sisters. It is time for her to utter her perpetual vows. And Sister Bernadette cannot but reveal the most buried secret of the monastery : she was not abandoned on her own, there was also a boy, her twin brother… April decides to look for him. –Films Distribution

Director

Gérald Hustache-Mathieu

Gérald Hustache-Mathieu was born in 1968 in Grenoble, France. After studying science in college, he devoted himself to being an assistant director on various short and feature length films. His directorial debut, the short film Peau de vache (“Cowhide”), was selected by nearly fifty film festivals and won dozens of prizes. The film was nominated for the 2002 San Francisco Golden Gate Award and the 2001 European Film Award, and won the 2003 César Award for Best Short Film. Shot in 2002, his second short La chatte andalouse also met with strong success in festivals and was nominated for a César in 2004. Hustache-Mathieu’s first feature length film, Avril (“April in Love”), was released in France in 2006. Variety called it “a pleasingly peculiar blend of sacred and profane that’s quite unlike the vast majority of contempo French films.” Nobody Else But You (“Poupoupidou”) is the director’s fourth film, and his fourth to star his favorite actress, Sophie Quinton. The film received a Gold… read more