Synopsis
In a small Corsican village, Hélène's life is made up of days that follow one after the other, all of them the same.
This unassuming, discreet woman works as a housemaid in a hotel and seems happy with her husband, Ange, and their fifteen-year-old daughter, Lisa. Her modest and monotonous life seems entirely mapped out.
Everything changes the day when, going about her work, she comes across a young, very attractive American couple playing chess on a hotel balcony.
Initially intrigued, then completely crazy about the game, Hélène obstinately puts everything into place to master the rules of chess to a level of excellence. She can count on the assistance of Doctor Kröger, a mysterious inhabitant of the village. But this positive metamorphosis toward a new freedom doesn't occur without profoundly modifying Hélène's relationships with her family, friends, and the other village inhabitants.
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Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Mon Voisin Productions
- Co-production : France 2 Cinéma
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : STUDIOCANAL
Full credits (13)
- Executive Producers : Dominique Besnehard, Michel Feller
- Assistant Director : Julien Zidi
- Author of original work : Bertina Henrichs
- Sound recordists : Erwan Kerzanet, Sélim Azzazi, Emmanuel Croset
- Screenwriters : Caroline Bottaro, Caroline Maly
- Director of Photography : Jean-Claude Larrieu
- Production Manager : Rémi Bergman
- Press Attaché (film) : François Hassan Guerrar
- Editor : Tina Baz
- Production Designer : Manu de Chauvigny
- Music Composer : Nicola Piovani
- Casting : Tatiana Vialle
- Costume designer : Dorothée Guiraud
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Germany
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Germany)
- Production year : 2008
- French release : 05/08/2009
- Runtime : 1 h 37 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 119.395
- Visa issue date : 02/07/2009
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SR
- Rating restrictions : None
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