“I didn’t take long to make up my mind. It’s rare to be moved when you read a film script. It’s usually rather boring. Here, there was a love story, written and seen in a new kind of way. The role of Muriel, my character, is fabulous. She lives the story right through to the end. It’s a gutsy film and not remotely vulgar or voyeuristic. My meeting with Jeanne Labrune was the deciding factor. She’s a strong, yet very gentle woman and she gave me back my taste for the movies. It was a long time since anyone had done that.”

(Nathalie Baye, in an interview in “Le Parisien”, September 3rd 1998)