Le Bel Âge
Dec 30 2009
•2h 40m
•Drama
At 18, Claire is torn between swim practice and the pangs of first love. The elderly and eccentric Maurice Reverdy takes her in in his big house, but the girl carefully avoids this faraway figure, who is none other than her grandfather. Proud, rebellious, solitary, they represent two generations that are simultaneously attracted to and repelled by one another. Their lives will intertwine, as one seeks out her future and the other is tormented by his past.
Cast
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Michel Piccoli
Maurice Reverdy
Pauline Étienne
Claire
Éric Caravaca
Rafaël
Marie Kremer
Marie
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