Overview
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point.
Cast
- Miou-Miou as Madeleine
- Isabelle Huppert as Lena Weber
- Guy Marchand as Michel Korski
- Jean-Pierre Bacri as Costa Segara
- Robin Renucci as Raymond
- Patrick Bauchau as Carlier
- Jacques Alric as Mr. Vernier
- Jacqueline Doyen as Mme Vernier
- Saga Blanchard as Sophie
- Guillaume Le Guellec as René