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La mère Christain (1998)
Directed by Myriam Boyer
Overview
In industrial Lyon of the early ‘50s, a widowed bar-owner listens to radio crime serials, reads detective magazines, and grieves for her daughter, killed two years earlier in a mineshaft accident. Consumed by her loss and unwilling to face the truth, the bar-owner becomes suspicious of the grim patrons in her drab tavern, seeking someone to blame as she contemplates revenge.
Length 90 minutes
Actors
Myriam Boyer | Bruno Boëglin | Maryline Even | Clovis Cornillac | Lorraine Bouchet | Philippe Vincent | Gérard Mignot | Michel Meyrieux