Cast
Monique Mélinand 
Hubert Deschamps 
Philippe Léotard 
Nathalie Baye
Credits
Written by: 
Maurice Pialat
Plot
A mother's death and a family's reaction.
Sinekatalog’s take
Maurice Pialat's raw drama follows a family around a dying mother, the husband's infidelities and the son's distance. Unsentimental and painfully honest, with Monique Mélinand, it is a bleak, powerful study of death and indifference.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.3 / 10 (1,536 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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