Ma Mie Rose (1976)
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Gisèle Casadesus, Claude Jade, Claude Giraud, Eric Najsztat, Mireille Audibert, Jeanne Herviale
An elderly woman hired to care for a difficult boy recognizes that his behavior masks deep unhappiness.
The story
Agathe and Régis are a couple on the verge of divorce, and their ten-year-old son, Benoît, is capricious and sometimes aggressive. Hoping to think through their decision more carefully, they plan a vacation and advertise for a live-in grandmother to look after him. Rose, an elderly woman, answers the ad and arrives with a fish and a bird she cannot bear to part with. Her first encounters with Benoît are unpleasant, but Rose is not deterred. She comes to understand that beneath his difficult behavior, the boy is unhappy and feels unloved by his family.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Agathe and Régis have a little boy, Benoît, who is very capricious and sometimes aggressive. The couple, on the verge of divorce, considers going on vacation so they can think over their decision more carefully. To do so, Agathe and Régis place an ad in a newspaper: “Young couple seeks live-in grandmother to look after little boy, aged ten...” An elderly woman, Rose, applies. She arrives with a fish and a bird she cannot part with. Her first encounters with Benoît are very unpleasant. Not at all discouraged, she realizes that he is unhappy and suffers deeply from feeling unloved by his family...
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