Les âmes de papier (2013)
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Stéphane Guillon, Julie Gayet, Jonathan Zaccaï, Pierre Richard, Jules Rotenberg
A disillusioned writer of eulogies is drawn to a widow who commissions him to tell her young son about his father.
The story
Since his wife’s death, Paul has specialized in writing eulogies. Emma, whose war-correspondent husband died after being blown up by a bomb, commissions one for the first anniversary of his death so that her young son, Adam, can hear about his father. Attracted to Emma, Paul accepts and writes the eulogy.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Since his wife’s death, the disillusioned writer Paul has specialized in writing eulogies. Emma, the widow of a war correspondent who was “blown up” by a bomb, commissions one from him for the first anniversary of her husband’s death because she wants their little boy, Adam, to hear about his father. Attracted to Emma, Paul agrees and writes the eulogy. A friendship develops between them. Paul agrees, among other things, to come to Adam’s birthday. Their friendship turns into a romantic relationship, until the day Nathan, the father presumed dead, returns...
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