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Les mots pour le dire

6.5 92 mins Comedy   Drama   1983
Stéphan Films   Filmédis   UGC   Belstar Productions   TF1 Films Production  
Director(s): José Pinheiro

A psychological drama that details the tormented relationship between Marie and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria. The mother, Eliane had lost a child before Marie was born and was consumed with hatred for her husband who was carrying tuberculosis and may have been the cause of the child's death. That hatred was never resolved, and Marie grew up in a bitter and strained household. As both women grow older, Marie marries and raises a family while her mother sinks ever deeper into anger, frustration, poverty, and isolated despair. She vents her destructive emotions on her daughter and is completely resistant to her daughter's attempts to help her, to make her life better.

Casts of Les mots pour le dire

Nicole Garcia

as Marie Saint-Jean

Marie-Christine Barrault

as Eliane Saint-Jean

Daniel Mesguich

as Psychoanalyst

Claude Rich

as Guillaume Talbiac

Jean-Luc Boutté

as François

Michèle Baumgartner

as Michèle

Jean-Louis Foulquier

as Bertheas

Robin Renucci

as Marie's father

Violaine Gonce

as Marie, child

Denise Noël

as Nurse

Bernard Montagner

as Intern

Annie Noël

as Nurse

Robert Party

as Finchel

Rudolph Monori

as Rudolph

Marie Cardinal

as Editor

Marie-Jo Hareux

as Woman at the bar

Anne-Marie Jabraud

as Metro station chief

Zakia Tahiri

as Young tango dancer

Adrien Kauffmann

as Aristide

Guillaume

as Child

Gérard Lester

as (uncredited)

Léon Zitrone

as TV show presenter (uncredited)

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