Movie: La Matiouette ou l'Arrière-pays

Top 2 Billed Cast

Jacques Nolot
Jacques Nolot

Alain Pruez

Patrick Fierry
Patrick Fierry

Jean-Claude Pruez, aka Jacky Verrière

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    Two brothers: one of them has become an actor and lives in Paris; he goes back home and meets his sibling who has stayed in the village where he married "la Matiouette", a local girl. The reunion is warm, but they soon discover that now they are worlds apart.little by little, the conversation becomes less friendly, less kind, and regrets, resentment resurface. Their reunion will leave them two broken men.

  • Release Date

    1983-07-27

  • Average

    7

  • Rating:

    3.5 starts
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  • Languages:

    Français

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