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  The Midwife (Sage femme)

Claire is a midwife in a maternity hospital. She is humane and helpful and gives herself entirely to her patients. But her life is not a bed of roses for all that. Her maternity is about to close its doors and the devoted woman is determined not to work in the new modern hospital she regards as a "baby factory". Her personal life is no triumph either: she is single and does not make friends easily. To make matters worse, her student son Simon is gradually leaving home, as he is developing a relationship with his new sweetheart Lucie. It is the moment that chooses Béatrice, her dead father's former mistress, to resurface. The eccentric, spendthrift, sensual, amoral woman (her exact opposite in fact) is really the last kind of person she needs to mix with. But Beatrice soon informs her that the suffers from brain cancer and she has nobody else to turn to. Torn between rejection and duty, what is Claire going to do ?

117 Minutes

Martin Provost (dialogue)
Martin Provost (screenplay)

Martin Provost

Catherine Deneuve....Béatrice Sobo dite Sobolevski
Catherine Frot....Claire Breton
Olivier Gourmet....Paul Baron
Quentin Dolmaire....Simon
Mylène Demongeot....Rolande
Pauline Etienne....Cécile Amado - une patiente
Pauline Parigot....Lucie
Marie Gili-Pierre....Evelyne
Audrey Dana....La chef de service hôpital moderne
Jeanne Rosa....Élodie
Élise Oppong....Sophie
Ingrid Heiderscheidt....L'hôtesse d'accueil de la maternité
Jacques Mechelany....Francis
Ana Rodriguez....Patiente du bébé au cordon enroulé
Karidja Touré....Madame Naja - une patiente

infrequent brief nudity, surgical detail

Genres

Drama

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