Director Julie Bertuccelli's spirited adaptation of Lynda Rutledge's novel brings mother/daughter duo, Catherine Deneuve and Chiara Mastroianni, to the big screen. On a gorgeous summer day in the village of Verderonne, Claire Darling (Deneuve) makes a decision. She places various items from her spacious estate out on her front lawn for the garage sale of a lifetime, with no spoken reason other than the sunny weather. This prompts her neighbors to swarm her property, barrelling over each other to swoop up the lavish items Claire has marked for sale at suspiciously low prices. As her neighbors shop, the reason for Claire's abrupt change in lifestyle comes into view--she has decided to die. After alternating between Claire's memories of love, loss, and an altogether eccentric life, the film takes another turn when Claire finds a long-lost face at her door, one that she has not seen in over 20 years; her daughter, Mary (played by Deneuve's daughter, actress Chiara Mastroianni).
Director Biography
Julie Bertuccelli was born in 1968 in France. She has received a wide array of praise for her work in documentaries for both film and television, which includes School of Babel (13) and The Tree (10).
Press
"To watch the great Deneuve at work is always a gift; to watch her work with her daughter is, if possible, even better." - The Times Weekly
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