The mother of three children seems to become romantically involved with the man playing Don Juan in the same local countryside theatre where she is acting. The children decide to try to poison the man who is threatening their family life. The real life and the stage roles get intertwined...
Direction
Issermann's playful collapse of stage and kitchen-sink realism.
Acting
Lio's magnetic mother walking the razor's edge of sympathetic and selfish.
Director
Aline Issermann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lio was already a Belgian pop star before becoming France's queen of eccentric cinema—this role channels her own reputation for disruptive femininity.
The title's religious invocation isn't accidental; Issermann frames maternal sacrifice as its own form of saintly martyrdom that Gabrielle is finally refusing.
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