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Seventeen Times Cécile Cassard
17 fois Cécile Cassard
2002
Synopsis
Cécile Cassard is a woman shattered by the accidental loss of her husband. Leaving her young son with her sister, Cecile attempts to start anew in Toulouse, where she strikes up a friendship with Matthieu, a queer barman. Across 17 vignettes, Cecile’s unique path to complete reconstruction unfolds.
Editorial
As emotional as his famous later works, Christophe Honoré’s mysterious feature debut is preoccupied with motherhood and the hollowing effects of grief. In a mercurial performance, Béatrice Dalle movingly embodies the various stages of mourning, as dazed melancholy gives way to cathartic epiphanies.
