Release, runtime and language

2003 · 137 mins · French

Directed by

Gilles Bourdos

Starring

Mathieu Amalric, Grégoire Colin, Laurent Grévill, Frédéric Pierrot, Etienne Chicot, Bernard Bloch

Haunted by the memory of watching her mother’s brutal murder at age seven, Elise Gardet has spent years trying to bury the unsolved crime. Now eighteen and strikingly beautiful, she feels trapped by the expectations of her upper‑class family and the constant anxiety of her demanding stepmother, driving her to seek an escape from the suffocating domestic world.