UN AMOUR IMPOSSIBLE
(AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE)
November 23, 10:30 a.m.
Drama | 135 min
French (English subtitles)
D: Catherine Corsini | 2019 | France
With:
Virginie Efira, Niels Schneider, Jehnny Beth, Estelle Lescure, Ambre Hasaj, Iliana Zabeth, Sasha Allessandri-Torrès Garcia, Coralie Russier
Rating:
18 years and older
Festivals:
Jeonju International Film Festival (South Korea, 2019)
Istanbul Film Festival (Turkey, 2019)
Rendez-vous with New French Cinema in Rome (2019)
Festival du Film Francophone de Grèce (Greece, 2019)
Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hong Kong, 2019)
Festival du Film Français de CORK (Ireland, 2019)
Best Screen Adaptation : Catherine Corsini, Laurette Polmanss, Most Promising Actress: Jehnny Beth, Best Actress, Virginie Efira, Cesar Awards - French film industry awards (France, 2019)
Göteborg, Rotterdam International Film Festival (The Netherlands, 2019)
International Film Festival (Sweden, 2019)
Geneva International Film and Television Festival
(Cinéma Tous Écrans) (Switzerland, 2018)
At the end of the 1950s, Rachel, a young office clerk living in a provincial town, meets Philippe, a well-educated man from a wealthy family. They share an intense but short-lived romance, from which a daughter is born. Over the next 50 years, their lives will be shaped by the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, overshadowed by the impossible love of a woman for a man that rejects her, and of a daughter for an absent and abusive father.
Brilliantly dark and tender family drama. A daughter’s life is shaped by her father’s arrogance and her mother’s humility, in Catherine Corsini’s beautiful film
— Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
The acting is terrific. Lead Efira, previously known for lighter material (In Bed With Victoria), shows herself more than capable of a heavyweight dramatic role, subtly maturing from romantic 20s to careworn middle age, while Schneider is unsettling as the mercurial male who exploits his seductive, narcissistic charm to baleful effect.
— Jonathan Romney, ScreenDaily