Seventeen Times Cecile Cassard
17 fois Cecile Cassard, feature film, 2001
DIRECTED BY: Christophe Honoré
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