Plot
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandmother in a small town near Avignon. Although rumors of war reach the countryside, it's an idyllic place, and Marie's parents are constantly making love. Surrounded by sexual frankness, Marie fancies herself a woman and develops a crush on Alexander, the town's young Jewish doctor, and is despondent when he treats her like a child. When her father abruptly leaves for a few weeks to help with a relative's harvest, her mother and the doctor disappear into the woods for hours at a time. Marie tries to spy on them. When Papa returns, what will the family and the doctor do?
Written by
Henriette Jelinek, Jeanne Moreau
Directed by
Jeanne Moreau
Crew
Production Countries
France
Production Companies
Carthago Coop. Cinematográfica, Janus Films, Südwestfunk (SWF)
Languages
Français
Awards
2 nominations