Les Mots pour le dire

Les Mots pour le dire — Plot

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.

• Release date
• October 12, 1983
• Runtime
• 92 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Drama
• Director
• José Pinheiro

Les Mots pour le dire — Cast

Nicole Garcia Marie Saint-Jean Marie-Christine Barrault Eliane Saint-Jean Daniel Mesguich Psychoanalyst Claude Rich Guillaume Talbiac Jean-Luc Boutté François Michèle Baumgartner Michèle Jean-Louis Foulquier Bertheas Robin Renucci Marie's father