Gilles' Wife ( La Femme de Gilles ) ( La Donna di Gilles )

Gilles' Wife (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La Femme de Gilles
Alternate Title: La Donna di Gilles
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
103 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Luxembourg ( France, Benelux )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Frédéric Fonteyne

Written By:
Frédéric Fonteyne
Philippe Blasband
Madeleine Bourdouxhe

Actors:
Emmanuelle Devos ..... Elisa
Clovis Cornillac ..... Gilles
Laura Smet ..... Victorine
Alice Verlinden ..... La jumelle #1
Chloé Verlinden ..... La jumelle #2
Colette Emmanuelle ..... La mère d'Élisa
Gil Lagay ..... Le père d'Élisa
Frédéric Fonteyne ..... L'ouvrier ami de Gilles
Patrick Quinet ..... Maréchal

Synopsis:

Set in one of those sleepy hamlets burbling with underground rivers of molten feeling, the French drama "Gilles's Wife" opens with a man returning home and rousing his sleeping wife first to consciousness, then to passion. The man is Gilles (Clovis Cornillac), a provider with the fleshy round face of a baby, who dutifully trudges with antlike constancy between his home and the mine in which he works. Not until this pacific world comes undone by those molten passions do we hear the name of Gilles's wife, a woman whose steady smile speaks to a well-ordered life organized around her beautiful children, her tidy home and, most important, the husband who serves as her sun. The woman, the wife and the mother is Elisa, and she is played by the fascinating French actress Emmanuelle Devos. Ms. Devos has softly blurred features and a smile as enigmatic as the Mona Lisa's. The story is simplicity itself: Elisa, as if waking from a dream, slowly realizes that Gilles has developed a passion for another woman. The director of "Gilles's Wife" is Frédéric Fonteyne, whose best-known film is a slight entertainment called "A Pornographic Affair" that, much like this work, has an appealing surface beauty and an equally shallow mystery.

In 1930s Belgium a young woman discovers that her husband has a love affair with her sister.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 13 June, 2006.

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