The Secret

The Secret (2000)

RomanceDrama

Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husband Francois for 12 years and has a two-year-old son. Though she is relatively content with her life, she feels something is wanting. Enter 50-year old African-American Bill. Initially she is annoyed by his insouciance, but she finds that she is irresistibly attracted to him. Soon the two are in the midst of sordid illicit affair. She knows little about her new lover, and he seems uninterested in learning about her, but the long sessions of lovemaking are something else entirely. Feeling out of control, Marie is increasingly repelled by her own actions. Psychologically, she struggles to reconcile her torrid encounters with Bill and mundane domestic chores such as bathing her son. Moreover, she finds herself incapable of hiding her adulterous behavior, rather she comes home with scratches and hickeys all over her body, to the devastation Francois.

Director: Virginie Wagon
Writer: Erick Zonca

Casts

	Anne Coesens as Marie
	Michel Bompoil as François
	Tony Todd as Bill
	Jacqueline Jehanneuf as Mère de Marie
	Aladin Reibel as Rémy
	Quentin Rossi as Paul
	Valérie Vogt as Séverine
	Frédéric Sauzay as Luc
	Natalya Ermilova as Ana
	Charlotte Pradon as Mélanie

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