The Woman in the fifth [DVD] / Haut et Court and Film4 present, in association with UK Film Council ; a co-production with SPI International Poland and The Bureau ; a film by Pawel Pawlikowski ; screenplay by Pawel Pawlikowski ; produced by Caroline Benjo, Carole Scotta.
Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas, Joanna Kulig, Samir Guesmi, Delphine Chuillot. Based on the novel by Douglas Kennedy. Originally released as a motion picture in 2011. Special features: Making of.
Summary:
"American novelist Tom Ricks ... arrives in Paris determined to renew a relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. When a longed-for meeting goes poorly, he ends up in a seedy hostel on the outskirts of the city. Unable to pay for his room and board, he agrees to work as a night guard at a warehouse or the proprietor ... and spends the hours writing elaborate, imaginative letters to his daughter. One evening, after he's invited to a literary gathering, Tom meets Margit ..., an enigmatic translator whose magnetic presence and worldly manner intrigue the down-and-out author. She seduces him, haughtily dictating the time and place of their rendezvous in the Fifth Arrondissement. Their passionate affair coincides with a string of inexplicable events, and slowly Tom's anxieties and inner torments begin to derange his sense of what's real"--Container.
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