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Normandy, 1819. Jeanne is a innocent young woman full of childish dreams who has just returned home after finishing her studies at a convent. On returning to her old life, she complies with the plans set out by her family and marries Julien de Lamare, a local viscount, who soon reveals himself to be mean and faithless. Little by little, Jeanne illusions will unravel. From the director of Mademoiselle Chambon and A Few Hours of Spring, the film is an adaptation of the first book by French writer Guy de Maupassant. Venice and Toronto Film Festivals, 2016.
Stéphane Brizé
1966, Rennes, France. Selected filmography: Hometown Blue (Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals, 1999), Not Here to Be Loved (2005), Among Adults (2006), Mademoiselle Chambon (César for best adapted screenplay and FIPRESCI and jury award at the Istanbul Film Festival, 2009), A Few Hours of Spring (Locarno and Toronto Film Festivals, 2012), and The Measure of a Man (best actor at the Cannes Film Festival 2015).
