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2013 – Belgium / France – 2.35 – 5.1 – Color – 106′

SCRIPT: François-Xavier Vives, Camille Fontaine and Emmanuel Roy
PRODUCERS: Alain Berliner (WFE), Sesame Films, RTBF, Belgacom
DIRECTOR: François-Xavier Vives
GENRE: Drama
CAST: Marie Gillain, Jalil Lespert, Miou Miou
LANGUAGE: French
FORMAT: Digital Cinema
LENGTH: 106 minutes
RELEASE DATE: 28/08/2013

Nominee Best Supporting Actress (Christelle Cornil) & Most Promising Actor (Steve Driesen), Magritte Awards, Belgium 2014
Nominee Grand Prix des Amériques & Winner Best Artistic Contribution, Montréal World Film Festival 2013

A young widow wants to carry on with her husband’s work: managing a pine plantation where they extract resin. But most of all, she wants to have electricity installed in her valuable property. In this place, it seems that 1789 never happened and that time stood still: her workers do not receive any salary and, like the peasants in the middle ages, they have to bring their production to their landlady.
But her progressive ideas come up against men still remembering WW1 and against her bourgeois peers. Her foreman, first bewildered, is finally won over by his boss’ resilience and strength of character.