Bertrand Tavernier's magnificent portrait of French family life on the brink of World War I
In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.
- 7.0
- 1984
- Released
- 1h 34m
Sabine Azéma
Iréne
Louis Ducreux
Monsieur Ladmiral
Michel Aumont
Gonzague
Monique Chaumette
Mercedes
Geneviève Mnich
Marie-Thérèse
Thomas Duval
Emile
Quentin Ogier
LucienKatia Wostrikoff
Mireille
Claude Winter
Madame Ladmiral
Jean-Roger Milo
le pêcheur
Pascale Vignal
la serveuseValentine Suard
une petite filleErika Faivre
une petite filleReleased
fr
$8,200,000.00
- #countryside
- #insect
- #sunday
- #painter
- #family relationships
- #old man
- #rural area
- #1910s
- #elderly man
- #father daughter relationship
Reviews
Did you know that is was Canius Fanius who forbade the rearing of chickens on the streets of ancient Rome? That’s what you learn from a weekly lunch with your ageing father/grandfather and what “Msr. Ladmiral” (Louis Decreux) imparts to his visiting son “Gonzague” (Michel Aumont) who is visiting for Sunday lunch with his wife “Mercédès” (Monique Chaumette) and three children. Although they all get