Histoires parallèles (2026)
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Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Catherine Deneuve, Pierre Niney, Adam Bessa
A famous writer mines her neighbors’ marital problems for fiction, until a new hire unsettles the boundary between her work and reality.
The story
Sylvie, a famous writer struggling to find inspiration for a new novel, begins spying on a couple living across the street and uses their marital problems to shape her characters. To help with her day-to-day life, she hires a young man named Adam. Sylvie does not anticipate how much he will disrupt her life and work. As events unfold, the line between her fiction and reality starts to blur, while her imagination increasingly outpaces the reality of the people around her.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Sylvie, a famous writer struggling to find inspiration for a new novel, starts spying on her neighbors across the street, drawing on the couple’s marital problems to create her characters. Meanwhile, to help her manage her day-to-day life, Sylvie hires a young man named Adam. She has no idea that he will turn her life and work upside down. Before long, the boundaries between Sylvie’s fiction and reality begin to blur. Her imagination starts to surpass the reality of everyone around her.
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