24 Hours in The Life of a Woman

– Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Lou..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.10 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 47 Minutes
Release Year:
2002
Original Name:
24 heures de la vie d'une femme
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (2002) - Also known as 24 heures de la vie d'une femme

Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19 year old young woman madly in love with a violent cad. Louis tells the story of his own mother having a passionate, driven fling with his Italian tennis instructor in 1936, and of Marie Collins Brown, the slightly older widowed woman who helped him through his confusion and pain by recounting the story of her passionate 24 hour fling with a hopeless young Polish gambler in 1913.

Producing Country:
Genre:
Release Date:

08 Jan 2003

Language:

French

Director:

Laurent Bouhnik

Writer:

Laurent Bouhnik, Gilles Taurand, Stefan Zweig (novel)

Main Actors:

Agnès Jaoui, Michel Serrault, Bérénice Bejo, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Plot:

Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and sea-side resort of his early adolescence, Louis, a seventy-eight-year-old man encounters Olivia, a nineteen-year-old girl madly in love with a violent cad. Louis tells the story of his own mother having a passionate, driven fling with his Italian tennis instructor in 1936, and of Marie Collins Brown, the slightly older widowed woman who helped him through his confusion and pain by recounting the story of her passionate twenty-four-hour fling with a hopeless young Polish gambler in 1913.

Awards:

1 nomination.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.2/10