Arrangement (The)
Original Title
La condition- Director: Jérôme Bonnell
- Writer: Jérôme Bonnell, Léonor de Récondo
- Producer: Anne Mathieu, Michel Saint-Jean
CGiii Comment
1908. In a bourgeois household, Céleste, a young maid, is in the service of Victoire and André Boisvaillant. Each night, André slips into Céleste’s room, until she can no longer hide her round belly. When Victoire realizes what has happened, she decides to fake a pregnancy and keep Céleste’s baby as her own. As tensions rise within the house, an unexpected bond begins to form between these two women who have nothing in common. But this bond threatens the fragile order that André is desperate to maintain. A film that gracefully and acutely explores female identity, class struggles, and the weight of roles imposed by society.
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Cast & Characters
Swann Arlaud ... André de Boisvaillant
Louise Chevillotte ... Victoire de Boisvaillant
Galatéa Bellugi ... Céleste
Emmanuelle Devos ... Mathilde de Boisvaillant
Aymeline Alix ... Huguette
François Chattot ... Alphonse Lajardie
Camille Rutherford ... Odette
Jonathan Couzinié ... Joseph
Jean-François Sivadier ... Le curé
Ferdinand Pierrot ... Desgranges
Joël Lefrançois ... Le maire
Jérôme Boyer ... Le docteur Claude
Evelyne Levavasseur ... Mme Berthon
Maxime Taton-Scotté ... M. Bouillaud
le 2e clerc
Joël Clabault ... Le père Fouan
Catherine Dewitt ... La convive
Antonin Meyer-Esquerré ... Le banquier
Léonor Stirman ... Marianne Sérizy
Pierre Philippe ... M. Sérizy
Leïla Muse ... La baronne
Alice Thillard ... La bonne des Sérizy
Gabriel Bordais ... Félix (bébé)
Milan Albanet ... Félix (bébé)
Alessio Albanet ... Félix (bébé)