La Maman du bourreau (2024)
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Marie-Christine Barrault, Laurent Stocker, Xavier Robic, Laetitia Vercken
A devout, wealthy woman’s life is upended by news of her priest son’s death, against the backdrop of a regional pedophilia scandal.
The story
At 80, Gabrielle de Miremont is a wealthy, devout Catholic who appears untouchable. One morning, a gendarme arrives with devastating news: her beloved son, Pierre-Marie, a priest and parish priest in her local parish, has died. The news shatters Gabrielle’s world. The crisis has roots in events a month earlier, when a newspaper article exposed a pedophilia scandal in the region. The plot description establishes the connection between this revelation and the collapse of Gabrielle’s world, but does not explain further developments.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
At 80, Gabrielle de Miremont, a wealthy woman and devout Catholic, seems untouchable. Until one morning, when a gendarme comes to tell her that her beloved son, Pierre-Marie, a priest and the parish priest of her local parish, has died. Her world collapses. Yet this collapse has its roots a month earlier, following the publication of a newspaper article revealing a pedophilia scandal in the region…
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