Synopsis
Cécile and Alain have been living together for twenty years. He runs a small hi-tech engineering company in Grenoble that is doing well – extremely well – and although she has no need to work, Cécile continues to teach at the local high school.
They are a wonderful, indestructible, model couple, to the great chagrin of their doctor friend, Georges, who is not insensitive to Cécile's charms.
Cécile has always been anxious by nature, but this time she is sure that Alain is hiding something from her.
He’s right to keep what’s troubling him hidden. If Cécile knew the truth she’d be distraught. Alain thinks he’s going to die. In a few days, Georges is going to operate just to make sure. No matter the diagnostic, Alain will then tell Cécile the truth. In the meantime, he doesn’t want her to worry needlessly.
Cécile only knows one thing: Alain is lying to her, and if he’s lying to her, then something is wrong, seriously wrong. She doesn’t know what it could be. Maybe he’s got a lover? If he ...
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Director (1)
Actors (23)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Agat Films - Ex nihilo
- Co-production : Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : RTBF - Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française, Entre Chien et Loup
- Film exports/foreign sales : Playtime
- French distribution : Diaphana
Full credits (19)
- Executive Producer : Patrick Sobelman
- Screenwriter : Lucas Belvaux
- Director of Photography : Pierre Milon
- Music Composer : Riccardo Del Fra
- Assistant directors : Dominique Heinry, Christophe Marillier, Lise Leboeuf
- Editor : Valérie Loiseleux
- Sound Recordist : Christian Monheim
- Costume designer : Cécile Cotten
- Foreign producers : Diana Elbaum, Arlette Zylberberg
- Author of original work : Lucas Belvaux
- Assistant Operator : Nicolas Rideau
- Production Manager : Pascal Bonnet
- Press Attaché (film) : Marie-Christine Damiens
- Assistant editor : Gordana Othnin-Girard
- Continuity supervisor : Renée Falson
- Production Designer : Frédérique Belvaux
- Sound Mixer : Gérard Rousseau
- Unit Production Manager : Roxanne Pinheiro
- Post-production supervisor : Sophie Vermersch
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Belgium, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
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Awards (2)
Cesar Awards - French film industry awards
France, 2004
César Award for Best Editing : Danielle Anezin, Valérie Loiseleux, Ludo Troch