Betty Fisher et autres histoires (2001)
(Betty Fisher and other stories, Alias Betty)
Country: FR/CAN
Technical: col 103m
Director: Claude Miller
Cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicole Garcia, Mathilde Seigner, Luck Mervil
Synopsis:
A successful authoress is visited by her porphyric mother and loses her son in an accident at home. When her wayward parent replaces the child by kidnapping the undervalued waif of a bar waitress cum prostitute, there follows a complex intertwining of several different lives, leading to murder.
Review:
Fascinating Rendell-derived character piece, extremely filmic and delicately played in the best French manner.
(Betty Fisher and other stories, Alias Betty)
Country: FR/CAN
Technical: col 103m
Director: Claude Miller
Cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicole Garcia, Mathilde Seigner, Luck Mervil
Synopsis:
A successful authoress is visited by her porphyric mother and loses her son in an accident at home. When her wayward parent replaces the child by kidnapping the undervalued waif of a bar waitress cum prostitute, there follows a complex intertwining of several different lives, leading to murder.
Review:
Fascinating Rendell-derived character piece, extremely filmic and delicately played in the best French manner.
(Betty Fisher and other stories, Alias Betty)
Country: FR/CAN
Technical: col 103m
Director: Claude Miller
Cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicole Garcia, Mathilde Seigner, Luck Mervil
Synopsis:
A successful authoress is visited by her porphyric mother and loses her son in an accident at home. When her wayward parent replaces the child by kidnapping the undervalued waif of a bar waitress cum prostitute, there follows a complex intertwining of several different lives, leading to murder.
Review:
Fascinating Rendell-derived character piece, extremely filmic and delicately played in the best French manner.