Gilles' Wife

2004 1h 43m FR

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5.8

MID

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81%

FRESH

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METACRITIC

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6.7

IMDB

★5.8TMDB · 18🍅81%Rotten Tomatoes●82Metacritic★6.7IMDB · 922

Drama

Synopsis

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Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Emmanuelle Devos
Elisa
Clovis Cornillac
Gilles
Laura Smet
Victorine
Dean Constantin
Dancer Valse / Tango / Java.
Colette Emmanuelle
La mère d'Élisa
Gil Lagay
Le père d'Élisa
Alice Verlinden
La jumelle #1
Chloé Verlinden
La jumelle #2

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Frédéric Fonteyne
Writers: Frédéric Fonteyne, Philippe Blasband, Marion Hänsel
Languages: French
Countries: France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Italy

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1 / 6

ERA

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Released 22 years ago.

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2 / 6

WORLD

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International production across 5 countries: France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Italy.

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3 / 6

RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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4 / 6

CAST

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Emmanuelle Devos and Clovis Cornillac and Laura Smet carry the top of the cast.

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5 / 6

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0382691 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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6 / 6

WILD

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Only 18 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Frédéric Fonteyne directs. Produced in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Italy. Dialogue in French.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Released 22 years ago.
2International production across 5 countries: France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Italy.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Emmanuelle Devos and Clovis Cornillac and Laura Smet carry the top of the cast.
5IMDB entry: tt0382691 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
6Only 18 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
7Classified under 12 themes, including "factory worker", "adultery", "infidelity", "jealousy".