This is a story taken from life's daily repertoire, in which a kind naive girl from a single mother lower class poor family falls for a bourgeois, horrible bad man. As a result of her passion, love and infatuation, Rachel gets dragged by Philippe into a life long suffering and rejection, a life living with unrequited love.
While enjoying an afternoon in the woods, Philippe describes to Rachel three types of love. The first "marital love the one that everyone wants", the second "passion" and the third "an inevitable encounter". He asks Rachel what she thinks theirs is and while she replies that it is passion, he responds that it is an inevitable encounter. He tells her that he does not want to marry but that he would consider it if the to be spouse was from a rich family. Despite the red flags, Rachel allows Phillipe to impregnate her the day before he leaves for Paris. Phillipe does not want to recognize his daughter for a very long time, but eventually does. When his daughter Chantal grows up and they get together and start spending time to make up for lost time, Phillipe shatters all the family taboos and sodomizes his daughter, leaving her with long life mental scars.
If you wanted to watch a movie with a happy ending this isn't it. It is quite a heavy movie depicting emotional anguish, with the only happiness in it being the superb acting by Virginie Efira and Niels Schneider.
While enjoying an afternoon in the woods, Philippe describes to Rachel three types of love. The first "marital love the one that everyone wants", the second "passion" and the third "an inevitable encounter". He asks Rachel what she thinks theirs is and while she replies that it is passion, he responds that it is an inevitable encounter. He tells her that he does not want to marry but that he would consider it if the to be spouse was from a rich family. Despite the red flags, Rachel allows Phillipe to impregnate her the day before he leaves for Paris. Phillipe does not want to recognize his daughter for a very long time, but eventually does. When his daughter Chantal grows up and they get together and start spending time to make up for lost time, Phillipe shatters all the family taboos and sodomizes his daughter, leaving her with long life mental scars.
If you wanted to watch a movie with a happy ending this isn't it. It is quite a heavy movie depicting emotional anguish, with the only happiness in it being the superb acting by Virginie Efira and Niels Schneider.