Un amour impossible

Catherine Corsini : 2018
An Impossible Love

It's 1958 in Châteauroux, a small town in the French province and a couple takes to the dancefloor to dance to a song by Dalida whose premonitory words will haunt the forty years that follow this love at first sight. Rachel, a modest office worker, meets Philippe, a brilliant young Nietzsche-reading sophisticate born to a bourgeois family. From this brief but passionate relationship is born a daughter, Chantal, but Philippe refuses to marry outside of his social class and Rachel has to raise their daughter alone. Time passes and Rachel leads a lonely work life, raising her only daughter in the myth of her ectoplasmic father. But as a teenager, Philippe finally agrees to see them again, and to recognise Chantal as his. A decision that will have far-reaching consequences for the mother and daughter and which will poison their subsequent relationship. Based on the book by controversial French novelist Christine Angot, Catherine Corsini's feature premiered at Festival du Film Francophone d'Angoulême 2018, and had its UK premiere at London Film Festival 2018.