Les mots pour le dire (1983)
1h 32m
Running Time
October 12, 1983Release Date
Les mots pour le dire (1983)
1h 32m
Running Time
October 12, 1983Release Date
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Plot.
A psychological drama that details the tormented relationship between Marie and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria. The mother, Eliane had lost a child before Marie was born and was consumed with hatred for her husband who was carrying tuberculosis and may have been the cause of the child's death. That hatred was never resolved, and Marie grew up in a bitter and strained household. As both women grow older, Marie marries and raises a family while her mother sinks ever deeper into anger, frustration, poverty, and isolated despair. She vents her destructive emotions on her daughter and is completely resistant to her daughter's attempts to help her, to make her life better.
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Cast & Crew.

Nicole Garcia
Marie Saint-Jean

Marie-Christine Barrault
Eliane Saint-Jean

Daniel Mesguich
Psychoanalyst

Claude Rich
Guillaume Talbiac

Jean-Luc Boutté
François

Michèle Baumgartner
Michèle

Jean-Louis Foulquier
Bertheas

Robin Renucci
Marie's father

Céline Blanc-Potard
Jeanne

Violaine Gonce
Marie, child

Denise Noël
Nurse

Bernard Montagner
Intern

Annie Noël
Nurse

Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Writer

Robert Party
Finchel

Rudolph Monori
Rudolph

Marie Cardinal
Editor

Véra Belmont
Producer

Chaabia Laadraoui
Nany

Jacques Dorfmann
Producer

Marie-Jo Hareux
Woman at the bar

Jean-Marie Sénia
Composer

Anne-Marie Jabraud
Metro station chief

Gerry Fisher
Cinematographer

Zakia Tahiri
Young tango dancer

Adrien Kauffmann
Aristide

Claire Pinheiro
Editor

Ivan Maussion
ProductionDesigner

Guillaume
Child

Gérard Lester
(uncredited)

Léon Zitrone
TV show presenter (uncredited)

José Pinheiro
Director
Details.
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