Villa des roses

Feb 27 2002 PG-13 1h 58m
Drama, Romance, War

In 1913, a young woman starts work as a maid in a seedy Parisian boarding house full of eccentrics. When she falls in love with one of the guests, she must choose between her son and her new romance.

Plot

Louise Créteur's husband dies on the Titanic trying to emigrate, so she must leave their boy Lucien with her old dad in Honfleur and leave the Normandy countryside for greater Paris. She becomes a maid in the run-down Villa des Roses, a dodgy pension run by crafty retired barrister Hugh Burrell and his frivolous, posh wife Olive, an international home to has-beens and would-bes. Louside becomes the lover of German painter, but fears he's not committed and has an abortion. Fate changes, at the eve of World War I.

Written by

Christophe Dirickx, Willem Elsschot, Frank Van Passel

Directed by

Frank Van Passel

Production Countries

Belgium

Awards

1 win & 4 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
486
Average Rating
6.2 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA