Gilles' Wife
Watch TrailerGilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?
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📋 Film Details
| Original Title | La Femme de Gilles |
| Year | 2004 |
| Country | France, Belgium, Switzerland |
| Genre | Drama |
| Director | Frédéric Fonteyne |
| Runtime | 103 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 5.6/10 (17 votes) |
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The film constructs its tragedy through a suffocating quiet, where the weight of unsaid words and stolen glances carries more force than any confrontation. It relies on the oppressive intimacy of domestic spaces to explore how devotion can curdle into a desperate, self-annihilating strategy.
What lingers after viewing is not a plot point, but the haunting image of a soul eroding itself in silence, a poignant study of feminine anguish. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Frédéric Fonteyne
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Emmanuelle Devos
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Clovis Cornillac
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Laura Smet
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