Hidden Diary

Mères et filles

Canada, France

2009

105 Min

Color

1.85:1

English, French

Currently 2.8/5 Stars.
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CAST Catherine Deneuve, Marie-Josée Croze, Marina Hands, Michel Duchaussoy, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Carole Franck, Eléonore Hirt, Gérard Watkins, Romano Orzari

PROD DES Philippe van Herwijnen

Synopsis

Pregnant and living in Canada, Audrey visits her parents in the small French town of her birth. Over the holiday, she comes to learn the story of the grandmother who gave up her family, left, and never returned – and in doing so compels another revelation from her own mother. —Pusan International Film Festival

Director

Julie Lopes-Curval

JULIE LOPES-CURVAL started writing and directing plays while taking acting classes at the cours Florent. Following a first script for Adolescents, a commissioned film, she wrote and directed her first short film, Mademoiselle Butterfly, in 2001. Her first feature as writer-director, Seaside was screened at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2002 and won the Caméra d’or. Her following film Toi et Moi (2005), a romantic comedy starring Marion Cotillard and Julie Depardieu, was recently released on DVD in the U.S. Her writing credits also include A Great Little Business and The Role of Her Life, which won the Best Screenplay award at the 2004 Montréal World Film Festival. —colcoa.org