Ne touchez pas la hache

5.4/10 from 5 votes

Director: Jacques Rivette

Date of release: 28 Mar 2007

Description

In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently returned from Africa, she married and part of the highest society. She flirts with him, and soon he's captivated. His behavior is possessive, insistent. Then, it is her turn to become obsessed. Letters, balls, scandal, a kidnapping, and an ultimatum bring her to the cloister and him to melancholy.

Extra

Runtime	137 minute
Producer	Canal+ Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) Procirep Région Ile-de-France CinéCinéma Pierre Grise Productions Arte France Cinéma MEDIA Programme of the European Union Cinemaundici Ministère de la Culture Italien
Language	Français Español
Actors	Jeanne Balibar Michel Piccoli Guillaume Depardieu Barbet Schroeder Marc Barbé Bulle Ogier Remo Girone Paul Chevillard Victoria Zinny Beppe Chierici Mathias Jung Julie Judd Anne Cantineau Thomas Durand Nicholas Bouchaud Birgit Ludwig Denis Freyd Claude Delaugerre