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La vie d'une autre (2012)

97 min · Tragicomedy

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Directors

Sylvie Testud

Cast

Juliette Binoche, Mathieu Kassovitz, Aure Atika, Danièle Lebrun, Vernon Dobtcheff, Nicolas Carpentier

After waking with no memory of the past fifteen years, a forty-year-old woman has four days to reconnect with the partner she believes she first met at twenty-five.

The story

Forty-year-old Marie wakes one day believing she is twenty-five, the age she was when she met her partner. The last fifteen years have vanished from her memory: she does not remember marrying him or having their child. To Marie, she is at the start of a love story with the child’s father, but her partner is actually on the verge of ending their relationship. With only four days to find her bearings and win him back, she must confront the gap between the life she remembers and the one she has lived.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

One day, Marie (Juliette Binoche), who is forty, wakes up believing she is twenty-five—the age at which she met her partner. The last fifteen years of her life have been erased from her memory, including her marriage and the birth of a child. She finds herself at the beginning of a new love story with the father of her son, when in reality it is about to end. She has only four days to win back the man of her life and find her bearings.

Genres

Tragicomedy

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