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The Future of Emily (1985) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1985 · 106 mins · German
- Starring
- Ivan Desny, Hildegard Knef, Mathieu Carrière, Brigitte Fossey, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Camille Raymond
Emily stays with her bourgeois grandparents whenever her mother is filming. Isabelle wraps a picture, flies to her childhood home to collect Emily and plans to return to France. Their reunion forces old family wounds to surface: Isabelle’s strained relationship with her parents and her mother Paula’s unhappiness about her marriage and lost youthful hopes. Meanwhile, the married co‑star of Isabelle’s latest film follows her to a nearby hotel and attempts an affair, complicating what’s best for Emily.
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