La femme de Gilles
Belgium / France / Luxembourg / Italy / Switzerland, September 2004
FILM,
Fiction,
103 min.
- directed by
- Frédéric Fonteyne
- Written by
- Frédéric Fonteyne
- Status
- In distribution
- Website
- www.lafemmedegilles.com
A working-class district in rural France, between the Wars. Elisa is Gilles’ wife. She takes
care of their children, and spends each day waiting for her husband to return home. Gilles
works in the blast furnaces - sometimes by day, sometimes at night. The furnaces never
shut down. Elisa’s younger sister Victorine often visits, to play with the children and help
out around the house. Elisa is pregnant. She’s troubled by strange suspicions. Gilles and
Victorine, Victorine and Gilles... but they’re just crazy ideas. Expectant mothers often get
crazy ideas. Then one day, her suspicions become an unbearable certainty. Gilles and
Victorine are lovers. Stunned, Elisa begins an interior battle, a battle of silence and a
desperate, self abnegating heroism. A battle to recover what she has lost. To become, once
again, Gilles’ wife.
credits
- World Premiere
- September 2004
- Original Version
- French, colour, 35mm, 103 min.
- Production
- Artémis Productions, Liaison Cinématographique, Samsa Film, Nord-Ouest Productions, Eyescreen, FAMA FILM AG
- Producer
- directed by
- Frédéric Fonteyne
- Written by
- Frédéric Fonteyne
- Editing
- Erwin Ryckaert
- Music
- Vincent d'Hondt
- Location Sound Mix
- Carlo Thoss
- Production Design
- Manu Kamanda
Cast
Emmanuelle Devos
Clovis Cornillac
Laura Smet
Alice Verlinden
Chloé Verlinden
Colette Emmanuelle
Gil Lagay
World Sales / World Rights
- World Sales
- Good Fellas
Worldwide Distribution
- Switzerland
- Fama Film Distribution Distribution
Festivals
(a selection)
-
Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage
16.01.2006 - 22.01.2006 -
Namur, 20e Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur
23.09.2005 - 30.09.2005 -
Istanbul, 24th Int. Istanbul Film Festival
02.04.2005 - 17.04.2005 -
Mar del Plata, 20e Festival de Cine de Mar del Plata
10.03.2005 - 20.03.2005 -
Gothenburg, 28th Göteborg Film Festival
28.01.2005 - 07.02.2005 -
Saarbrücken, Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
17.01.2005 - 23.01.2005 -
Toronto, Toronto International Film Festival
09.09.2004 - 18.09.2004 -
Venice, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica
01.09.2004 - 11.09.2004