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At the end of the 1950s, Rachel, a young Jewish office clerk living in a provincial town, meets Philippe, a charismatic man from a bourgeois family. They share an intense but short-lived romance, from which a daughter is born. Over the next 50 years, their lives will be shaped by the unconditional love between the mother and her daughter, overshadowed by the impossible love of a woman for a man who rejects her, and of a daughter for an absent and abusive father. An Impossible Love, adapted from a novel by Christine Angot, is a brilliantly dark and tender family drama that meditates on all forms of love —familial, romantic, functional — and their messy intersections.
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The Miami Jewish Film Festival virtual program is made possible with the generous support of Benjamin Nahum and Tamar Roodner.
- Year2020
- Runtime135 minutes
- LanguageFrench
- CountryFrance, Belgium
- PremiereMiami Premiere
- DirectorCatherine Corsini
- ScreenwriterCatherine Corsini, Laurette Polmanss
- CastVirginie Efira, Niels Schneider, Jehnny Beth
- CinematographerJeanne Lapoirie
- EditorFrédéric Baillehaiche
- MusicGrégoire Hetzel
We would appreciate your support if you would like to donate to our efforts and help cover our streaming costs. Please consider donating when "Unlocking" the film or by clicking here.
At the end of the 1950s, Rachel, a young Jewish office clerk living in a provincial town, meets Philippe, a charismatic man from a bourgeois family. They share an intense but short-lived romance, from which a daughter is born. Over the next 50 years, their lives will be shaped by the unconditional love between the mother and her daughter, overshadowed by the impossible love of a woman for a man who rejects her, and of a daughter for an absent and abusive father. An Impossible Love, adapted from a novel by Christine Angot, is a brilliantly dark and tender family drama that meditates on all forms of love —familial, romantic, functional — and their messy intersections.
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The Miami Jewish Film Festival virtual program is made possible with the generous support of Benjamin Nahum and Tamar Roodner.
- Year2020
- Runtime135 minutes
- LanguageFrench
- CountryFrance, Belgium
- PremiereMiami Premiere
- DirectorCatherine Corsini
- ScreenwriterCatherine Corsini, Laurette Polmanss
- CastVirginie Efira, Niels Schneider, Jehnny Beth
- CinematographerJeanne Lapoirie
- EditorFrédéric Baillehaiche
- MusicGrégoire Hetzel