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The Woman Who Drinks

6.4 average rating
6.4
French / 91 MIN. / 2001

The Genres

The Synopsis

On the eve of her final moments, a woman recalls her alcoholic past. She revisits her entire youth, including a binge that, at 46, cost her everything she had: "Loneliness and aging are themes that impose themselves on me, in one form or another. As for alcoholism, it fascinates me because of the revolt it underpins, and revolts me because of the unhappiness it creates around itself.

The Cast

Élise GuilbaultLuc PicardMichel ForgetFanny MalletteLaurent LacoursièreGilles RenaudLise CastonguayAlexandrine AgostiniRoch AubertPatrice RobitailleLinda SauvéDenis GravereauxSylvie PouliotMarie-Hélène MontpetitElodie GouletDominic DesmeulesCaroline LavigneMarc PaquetMichel TesseraultStéphane SéguinDenys ChapdelaineSylvain MarcelSébastien DijkstrasMichel Fervac-LaroseAlain GendreauPierre-Charles MiletteJulie Saint-Pierre

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