Synopsis
Pascal Manise is a cop. He has no scruples. They went by the board a long time ago, because Pascal has a problem: the woman he loves is a drug addict.
Agnès was already on drugs when they first met. Pascal couldn't stop her habit. All he could do was spare her from decline, from the squalid side of a junky life, from death on credit.
Pascal has an agreement with Jaquillat, a dealer in Grenoble, who supplies him with morphine in exchange for Pascal's blindness to certain goings on. Thanks to this, Agnès has been able to carry on working, living an almost normal life.
Almost, because the couple have built a barrier between their respective worlds. They never go out together. Pascal doesn't know Agnès' friends and colleagues and she doesn't know his. Until the day Agnès introduces him to her friend, Cécile, who is having problems with her husband, Alain. While investigating Alain, Pascal draws closer to Cécile and falls in love with her. Cécile is unaware of his feelings for she's still i...
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Actors (32)
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
- Editor : Danielle Anezin
- Sound Recordist : Christian Monheim
- Costume designer : Cécile Cotten
- Foreign producers : Diana Elbaum, Arlette Zylberberg
- Assistant Operators : Nicolas Rideau, Stéphane Rideau, Mathilde Perreau
- Production Manager : Pascal Bonnet
- Press Attaché (film) : Marie-Christine Damiens
- Sound editors : Bernadette Thiboud, Béatrice Wick
- 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 : Drama
- 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