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An Impossible Love
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Wikipedia article
'An Impossible Love' is a 2018 French drama film directed by Catherine Corsini and based on the best-selling 2015 novel of the same name by Christine Angot. Starring Virginie Efira, Jehnny Beth, and Niels Schneider, the film chronicles the life of office worker Rachel as she falls in love with the wealthy Philippe, gives birth to their daughter Chantal, and raises Chantal as a single mother while maintaining a complicated relationship with Philippe.
Plot
In the late 1950s in Chteauroux, France, Rachel, a modest office worker, meets Philippe, a brilliant young man born to a bourgeois family. This brief but passionate connection results in the birth of a daughter, Chantal. Philippe refuses to marry outside of his social class and Rachel has to raise their daughter alone. Regardless, Chantal is a great source of happiness for Rachel. She wishes for Philippe to legally acknowledge his daughter, which would give her his last name. A battle of more than ten years ensues, which will eventually break up all of their lives.
Cast
* Virginie Efira as Rachel Steiner
* Niels Schneider as Philippe Arnold
* Jehnny Bethas Chantal
** Ambre Hasaj as Chantal 3/5 years old
** Sasha Alassandri-Torrs Garcia as Chantal 6/8 years old
** Estelle Lescure as Chantal in adolescence
Reception
In France, the film averages 3,7/5 on the AlloCin from 32 press reviews. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, which categorizes reviews only as positive or negative, 100% of 20 reviews are positive.
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