Les Mots pour le dire (1983)
A psychological drama that details the tormented relationship between Marie and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria. The mother, Eliane had lost a child before Marie was born and was consumed with hatred for her husband who was carrying tuberculosis and may have been the cause of the child's death. That hatred was never resolved, and Marie grew up in a bitter and strained household. As both women grow older, Marie marries and raises a family while her mother sinks ever deeper into anger, frustration, poverty, and isolated despair. She vents her destructive emotions on her daughter and is completely resistant to her daughter's attempts to help her, to make her life better.
Director: José Pinheiro
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Nicole Garcia as Marie Saint-Jean |
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Marie-Christine Barrault as Eliane Saint-Jean |
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Daniel Mesguich as Psychoanalyst |
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Claude Rich as Guillaume Talbiac |
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Jean-Luc Boutté as François |
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Michèle Baumgartner as Michèle |
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Jean-Louis Foulquier as Bertheas |
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Robin Renucci as Marie's father |
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Céline Blanc-Potard as Jeanne |
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Violaine Gonce as Marie, child |
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Denise Noël as Nurse |
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Bernard Montagner as Intern |
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Annie Noël as Nurse |
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Robert Party as Finchel |
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Rudolph Monori as Rudolph |
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Marie Cardinal as Editor |
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Chaabia Laadraoui as Nany |
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Marie-Jo Hareux as Woman at the bar |
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Anne-Marie Jabraud as Metro station chief |
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Zakia Tahiri as Young tango dancer |
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Adrien Kauffmann as Aristide |
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Guillaume as Child |
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Mariusz Pujszo as |
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Tomasz Białkowski as |
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Jean Dolande as |
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Mitzi Hahn as |
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Maud Léthéo as |
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Christiane Meriel as |
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Gérard Lester as (uncredited) |
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Léon Zitrone as TV show presenter (uncredited) |
| Directing | José Pinheiro | Director |
