At once sly comedy and tense thriller In the House is a story about storytelling; about what can happen when we get lost inside a life that isn’t ours. It’s fiction about life that becomes fiction that might be life.
Director Benoît Jacquot adapted Chantal Thomas' bestselling novel examining the genesis of the French Revolution as witnessed from the perspective of the servants closest to Marie Antoinette. July 1789: Versailles. As the people of France rise up against King Louie XVI (Xavier Beauvois), the frightened sovereigns begin plotting their escape.
Daniel Auteuil remakes Marcel Pagnol’s 1940 classic.
“The humanist spirit of Gallic novelist-director Marcel Pagnol is alive and well in the old-fashionedly sincere The Well-Digger's Daughter, a competent remake of Pagnol's eponymous 1940 melodrama about a working-class girl impregnated by a young pilot who's sent off to war.
