Le ventre de Juliette
France, Spain, Luxembourg
2003
92 Min
Color
1.85:1
French
Synopsis
In Marseilles, Juliette and Mathias, both from rough, working class backgrounds, are madly in love. But when Juliette reveals that she is pregnant, Mathias is shocked and ends their relationship. No one seems to want the unborn baby – even Juliette’s mother, a former actress who is now reduced to running a small boutique, advises her to have an abortion. Juliette is on the brink of despair. And then, one day, a stranger her life… —filmsdefrance.com
Director
Martin Provost
Martin Provost was born in 1957 in the town of Brest. After some years in Paris pursuing the acting career for which he had left his native Brittany, Martin Provost turned to writing and directing. He shot two shorts before tackling his first full-length feature, Tortilla y Cinema (1997). He followed that up with Le Ventre de Juliette (Juliette’s Stomach) in 2003 and the international hit Séraphine in 2008, with Yolande Moreau in the lead role, which won no less than seven Césars in 2009. —institutfrancais.com
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