Chateau en Suède

Director: Josée Dayan
Writer: Christopher Thompson, Florian Zeller from the play of Françoise Sagan
Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Géraldine Pailhas, Guillaume Depardieu, Marine Delterme, Aymeric Demarigny
Cinematographer: Stephan Ivanov
Art direction: Philip Lévèque
Original music: Frédéric Botton
SFX conceptor: Guillaume Murray
 
Producers: Claude Léger – Josée Dayan – Mathieu Tarot
Unit manager: Martha Fernandez
Production company: Passion Films, Films Possessions, Ciné-Roman

A very unusual family : Hugo, an autocratic country squire ; his wife Eleonor; his sister Agathe, a spinster devoted to family traditions ; Elenor's brother, Sebastien, bonded to her by a dubious relationship ; and a grand mother who's regressed to childhood. And they are all costumed as if they live through in the 19th century. That's what young Frederic discovers when he arrives to study the legendary aristocratic family as part of his curriculum. Rapidly, Eleonor let's him know that she may grant him her favors. Then Frederic finds out that Hugo's first wife, Ophelie, now lives cloistered in the castle after she went mad. This means Eleonor is not Hugo's legitimate wife. They run, but to no avail, for Eleonor has no intentions of leaving. Learning about their relationship (or maybe provoking it), Hugo decides to kill Frederic with the help of Agathe and Sebastien. Desperate, Frederic escapes in the snow but dies of exhaustion. Sometime later, another young man arrives at the Castle. He too is attracted to Eleonor, but...

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