Belles familles (2015)
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Mathieu Amalric, Marine Vacth, Gilles Lellouche, Nicole Garcia, Karin Viard, Guillaume de Tonquédec
A visit to his family leads a Shanghai-based businessman back to his childhood home and into an ownership dispute involving his old friend.
The story
Jérôme Varenne, a businessman who has lived in Shanghai for more than ten years, is due to travel to London with his fiancée and business partner, Chen-Lin. While in Europe, he visits his family in Paris. At a disastrous dinner with his mother and brother, he hears that the country house where he spent his childhood remains unsold and that its ownership is disputed with the town hall by his childhood friend, developer Grégoire Piaggi. Jérôme decides to go there, leaving Chen-Lin to travel to London alone. He meets Grégoire and gets to know Louise, his father’s stepdaughter, and her mother, Florence, with whom his father spent the last years of his life.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Jérôme Varenne, a businessman, has lived in Shanghai for more than ten years. Due to travel to London on business with his fiancée and business partner, Chen-Lin, he takes advantage of his time in Europe to visit his family in Paris. During a disastrous dinner with his mother and brother, he learns that the beautiful country house where he spent his childhood still has not been sold, and that the developer who bought it back, his childhood friend Grégoire Piaggi, is disputing its ownership with the town hall. He decides to go there, leaving his fiancée to travel to London alone. There he meets up with Grégoire and gets to know his father’s stepdaughter, the young, beautiful, and very impulsive Louise, and her mother Florence, with whom his father spent the last years of his life.
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