24 Hours in the Life of a Woman

Overview

Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19 year old young woman madly in love with a violent cad. Louis tells the story of his own mother having a passionate, driven fling with his Italian tennis instructor in 1936, and of Marie Collins Brown, the slightly older widowed woman who helped him through his confusion and pain by recounting the story of her passionate 24 hour fling with a hopeless young Polish gambler in 1913.

Cast

Agnès Jaoui

Marie Collins Brown

Michel Serrault

Louis

Bérénice Bejo

Olivier

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Anton

Pascal Greggory

le joueur de casino

Valérie Dréville

Henriette

Serge Riaboukine

Maurice

Chloé Lambert

un pensionnaire

François Caron

le pensionnaire blond

Alexia Barlier

Kate