Seventeen Times Cecile Cassard

17 fois Cecile Cassard, feature film, 2001

DIRECTED BY: Christophe Honoré

Seventeen Times Cecile Cassard

CAST:
Béatrice Dalle,
Romain Duris,
Jeanne Balibar

SCRIPT:
Christophe Honore

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Rémy Chevrin

Synopsis:
After her husband’s death, Cécile Cassard cannot continue to lead a normal life. She is in constant fear that she could unintentionally harm her young son Lucas. She moves to Toulouse, and leaves her son behind with her best friend. In Toulouse, she meets Matthieu, who is a homosexual, and befriends him. The film shows seventeen moments in the woman’s life, frame by frame and how Cécile slowly returns to normal life… This film was part of the official program at the Cannes film festival in 2002.

color, 105 min