Un secret
Claude Miller
In post-war France a lonely, sickly child makes up a brother with whom he shares his life. He decides to explore his parents' past through a long inner journey. But the day he turns 15 everything changes.
With : Cécile de France, Patrick Bruel, Julie Depardieu, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric, Nathalie Boutefeu, Yves Verhoeven
Screenplay : Claude Miller, Natalie Carter
Image : Gérard de Battista
Editing : Véronique Lange
Music : Zbigniew Preisner
Screenplay : Claude Miller, Natalie Carter
Image : Gérard de Battista
Editing : Véronique Lange
Music : Zbigniew Preisner
Production : UGC YM, Integral Film GmbH
Distribution: UGC Distribution
Distribution: UGC Distribution
Writer Philippe Grimbert said the interweaving of time made this novel almost impossible to adapt for the screen. However the vibrant echoes of the past and the present constantly resounding off each other are the strength of this film. Claude Miller slowly and sinuously reveals over three periods the meanders and dark torments of this family haunted by a heavy secret. The film doesn't just tell the story of "the" secret, but "one" secret among many, among all those that this period engendered. Interlocking secrets with insoluble revelations, making the past and pent up pain burst back up after so many years. Can you, and should you, say everything?