A modern French classic direct from the Cinema Guild!
In a small French mining town in the 1930's, Elisa is a devoted wife and mother passionately in love with her husband Gilles. She spends her days caring for their two young daughters, while awaiting the birth of a third. Her beautiful and carefree younger sister Victorine drops by often to play with the children and help around the house. Elisa is content and fulfilled, happy with her place in life. One night, however, she is overtaken by troubling thoughts. Elisa begins to suspect that Gilles is having an affair with another woman. Determined to save her marriage, and with no other options available to her, Elisa undertakes a strange and disquieting battle to recover what she has lost, and to become, one again, Gilles' wife.
Steeped in rich period detail that re-creates the atmosphere of classic French cinema of the 1930's - the working-class films of Jean Gabin and Simone Simon - the film explores Elisa's emotional upheaval over the course of a year. Working with a screenplay by director Frederic Fonteyne and writers Philippe Blasband and Marion Hansel that adapts the 1937 novel of the same name, Emmanuelle Devos delivers a masterful, quietly intense turn as a woman whose world has been turned upside down, while cinematographer Virginie Saint-Martin's powerful compositions and Vermeer-like lighting capturing the turbulence and desperation that Elisa refuses to put into words.
