Overview
An illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case and when he returns to France from World War One they fall in love, an affair that can only end in tragedy.
Director and cast
- Yvon Marciano Director
- Sergio Castellitto as Gabriel de Villemer
- Marie Trintignant as Marie Benjamin
- Anémone as Cécile
- Adriana Asti as Madame de Villemer
- Alexandra London as Aude
- Anne Alvaro as Rosemonde Burel
- Marc Barbé as l'interne sténotypiste
- Camille Japy as le modèle
- Anne Jacquemin as la vendeuse de foulards
- Didier Sauvegrain as Docteur Bellec
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