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La Face cachée

2007

A quiet, melancholy chamber piece about a marriage drifting into silence, watched with the patience of people studying a wound.

Directed by
Bernard Campan
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Bernard Campan, Karin Viard, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Overview
François and Isa have been living side by side for years. François strums fruitlessly on his piano and makes half-hearted attempts to build a wall cabinet. He is equally clumsy in his relationship with Isa: his attempts to get closer to her come to nothing. Desperate, François thinks his wife has a lover and wants to leave him. But behind her cool mask, Isa has been hiding a painful secret for years...

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Directed by
Bernard Campan
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Bernard Campan, Karin Viard, Jean-Hugues Anglade
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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • love
    • isolation
    • deception
    Places
    • home
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
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    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror0
    Humour3
    Realism8
    Romance5
    Tension4
    Darkness5
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight7

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    Genres
    drama, comedy
    Directed by
    Bernard Campan
    Starring
    Bernard Campan, Karin Viard, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Olivier Rabourdin
    Country
    France, Belgium
    Languages
    French

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