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MADDENED BY HIS ABSENCE

by Sandrine Bonnaire

synopsis

After ten years, Jacques comes back to France to handle his father's succession. He had left France to live in the USA to escape a painful past he shared with Mado, his former wife, who in the meantime, built a new life with Stéphane and their 7 year old son, Paul. Upon his return, Jacques and Mado meet again; he asks to meet her son Paul; Mado hesitates, then accepts but hides it from her husband. Soon Paul and Jacques get close and they start to see each other secretly.

international title: Maddened by his Absence
original title: J'enrage de son absence
country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
sales agent: Playtime
year: 2012
genre: fiction
directed by: Sandrine Bonnaire
release date: FR 31/10/2012
screenplay: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jérôme Tonnerre
cast: WIlliam Hurt, Alexandra Lamy, Augustin Legrand, Jalil Mehenni
cinematography by: Philippe Guilbert
art director: Denis Hager
costumes designer: Magdalena Labuz
producer: Dominique Besnehard, Michel Feller, Thomas Schmitt
production: Mon Voisin Productions, Mosaique Films, Iris Productions
distributor: Ad Vitam

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