Un amour impossible

  • 134'
  • France
  • 2018

She is a typist and below his station, but that won’t stop rich kid Philippe from seducing the beautiful Rachel. He is clear about their future together: there isn’t one. Rachel accepts the situation, even when she becomes pregnant.

Catherine Corsini’s adaptation of Christine Angot’s successful, eponymous novel – told from the perspective of Rachel’s daughter Chantal – proves that listening to your heart isn’t always smart. Particularly in the late 1950s in rural France, where class distinctions are still important. Rachel and her daughter will make it on their own, but the former will never truly free herself of Philippe. Painfully slowly, Rachel realises she made the wrong choice. With a strong, moving role for Virginie Efira, this chronological tale finely delineates the impossibility and dramatic consequences of her love for Philippe.

  • 134'
  • France
  • 2018
Director
Catherine Corsini
Country of production
France
Year
2018
Festival Edition
IFFR 2019
Length
134'
Medium
DCP
International title
An Impossible Love
Language
French
Producer
Elisabeth Perez
Production Company
CHAZ Productions
Sales
Le Pacte
Screenplay
Catherine Corsini, Laurette Polmanss
Cinematography
Jeanne Lapoirie
Editor
Frédéric Baillehaiche
Production Design
Toma Baqueni
Music
Grégoire Hetzel
Cast
Virginie Efira, Niels Schneider, Jehnny Beth, Estelle Lescure, Coralie Russier, Iliana Zabeth, Catherine Morlot
Local Distributor
Cherry Pickers
Director
Catherine Corsini
Country of production
France
Year
2018
Festival Edition
IFFR 2019
Length
134'
Medium
DCP
International title
An Impossible Love
Language
French
Producer
Elisabeth Perez
Production Company
CHAZ Productions
Sales
Le Pacte
Screenplay
Catherine Corsini, Laurette Polmanss
Cinematography
Jeanne Lapoirie
Editor
Frédéric Baillehaiche
Production Design
Toma Baqueni
Music
Grégoire Hetzel
Cast
Virginie Efira, Niels Schneider, Jehnny Beth, Estelle Lescure, Coralie Russier, Iliana Zabeth, Catherine Morlot
Local Distributor
Cherry Pickers