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Cold as Summer
- Director: Jacques Maillot
- Writer: Pierre Chosson; Jacques Maillot
- Producer: Laurent Bénégui
CGiii Comment
Difficult and truly unsettling...
Depression, desperation, desolation seen through eyes that neither judge nor condemn - they reveal a complexity that, thankfully, few of us experience.
Maillot directs with a refined clarity - no gimmicks, no sentimentality - just a very painful story of a very lost girl.
So touching - you will ache.
Controlled talent.
No trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Rachel is a young woman with a little daughter, but it seems that she can't make an emotional connection to her or care for her. She would very much like to live her life and have fun, but the child presents a millstone around her neck. So she often drops the infant at her neighbor to baby-sit and goes out. One day she decides to leave for good, heading to the Côte d'Azur, and leaves her neighbor a note to look after her child - not knowing that she's on vacation. The child dies, and of all people a middle-aged married female detective who is desperately trying to get pregnant is assigned the investigation.
Cast & Characters
Sarah Grappin as Rachel;
Nathalie Richard as Claire;
Mika Tard as Cécile;
Eric Bonicatto as David;
Joseph Malerba as Gérard;
Valérie Mairesse as Elizabeth;
Catherine Ferran as La mère de Rachel;
Fred Ulysse as Le père de Rachel;
Audrey Fleurot as Marine;
Liliane Rovère as La mère de Claire;
Malik Zidi as Baudelaire;
Bruno Paviot asLe médecin légiste