Maddened by His Absence (2012)
After ten years, Jacques comes back to France to handle his father’s succession. He had left France to live in the USA to escape a painful past he shared with Mado, his former wife, who in the meantime built a new life with Stéphane and their 7 year old son, Paul. Upon his return, Jacques and Mado meet again; he asks to meet her son Paul; Mado hesitates, then accepts but hides it from her husband. Soon, Paul and Jacques get close and they start to see each other secretly.
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William Hurt
as Jacques
William McChord Hurt (March 20, 1950 – March 13, 2022) was an American stage, film and television actor, trained at the Juilliard School, Manhattan, New York, USA. For his leading role in the feature...
Alexandra Lamy
as Mado
Alexandra Lamy (born 14 October 1971) is a French actress.
Lamy was born in Villecresnes, near Paris, but grew up in Languedoc-Roussillon. When she was six months old, her parents, Michel and Michèle...
Augustin Legrand
as Stéphane
Augustin Legrand is a French actor. He replaced Jonathan Goldsmith as Dos Equis' Most Interesting Man in the World in 2016..
Jalil Mehenni
as Paul
Françoise Oriane
as Geneviève
Norbert Rutili
as Le notaire
Director
Sandrine Bonnaire
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