Une nouvelle amie = The new girlfriend / Mandarin Cinéma & Foz présentent ; en coproduction avec Mars Films, France 2 Cinéma ; avec la participation de Canal+, Ciné+, France Télévisions ; en association avec Manon 4, La Banque Postale Image 7, Cofimage 25, Cinémage 8 ; produit par Eric et Nicolas Altmayer ; un film de François Ozon.
Romain Duris, Anaïs Demoustier, Raphaël Personnaz, Isild Le Besco, Aurore Clément, Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat. Adapted from "The new girlfriend" by Ruth Rendell. Originally released as a motion picture in 2014. Special features: Romain Duris: portrait of an "actress" ; deleted scenes ; theatrical trailer.
Summary:
François Ozon's psychological drama about Claire, a young woman whose closest friend since childhood, Lea, passes away leaving behind her husband, David, and a newborn baby. One day Claire drops by David's house unexpectedly, and finds him feeding his baby with a bottle while dressed in his dead wife's clothes. He explains that Lea was aware of his predilection, and his relief that he's able to share his secret with someone moves both of them to create a female persona for him named Virginia. As David begins to identify more strongly as Virginia, this leads to confusing and conflicting feelings in Claire, and causes a rift between her and her husband.
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