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UN PETIT CAS DE CONSCIENCE

by Marie-Claude Treilhou

synopsis

A gang of old girlfriends, now playfully approaching their fifties, inadvertently get tangled up in a crime when two of them who share the same country house are robbed. The narrative thread follows the subsequent "investigation" and the different characters’ commentary on it. The suspense leads to dizziness: where is the truth and, more to the point, what is the just cause? Difficult to tell when each person’s conduct and viewpoint, although paved with good intentions, has its own particular hell of logic. When sensibilities are already strained to breaking point by life’s options and different political choices, and jealousies have arisen over time, the robbery can but bring things to a head.

original title: Un petit cas de conscience
country: France
sales agent: Mercure International
year: 2002
genre: fiction
directed by: Marie-Claude Treilhou
film run: 95'
release date: FR 25/12/2002
screenplay: Marie-Claude Treilhou
cast: Marie-Claude Treilhou, Ingrid Bourgoin, Dominique Cabrera, Claire Simon, Alain Guiraudie
cinematography by: Pierre Stoeber
film editing: Khadicha Bariha
art director: Anio de Marignan, Thomas Leporrier
production: Les Films de la Boissière
distributor: ID Distribution

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