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Les Destinées: Directed by Olivier Assayas. With Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Perrier. In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife - and more talk when he decides to take her back.
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- Drama, Romance
- Olivier Assayas
- 2000-07-12
Sentimental Destinies (French: Les Destinées sentimentales) is a 2000 French drama film directed by Olivier Assayas. Running from the 1890s to the 1930s, the film tells the story of two wealthy Protestant families in the south-west of France: the Pommerels who make cognac and the Barnerys who make porcelain.
Jean, a minister married with children, has just recently resigned himself to the failure of his marriage with Nathalie. No matter the pressures of polite, Protestant society surrounding them, from this moment on, Pauline and Jean’s “emotional destinies” are linked.
Apr 25, 2002 · Adapted from Jacques Chardonne’s 1936 novel, Les Destinées Sentimentales — a much-loved text in its native land — Assayas’s movie charts three decades in the life of Jean Barnery (Charles ...
Les Destinées is a film directed by Olivier Assayas with Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Perrier .... Year: 2000. Original title: Les Destinées sentimentales. Synopsis: Pauline is twenty-years-old when she and Jean first meet at a ball in Barbazac in the Charente.
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- France
- Eric Gautier
- Olivier Assayas
Les Destinées (2000) This exquisite three hour film, set in France, begins at 1900 and ends around 1930, covering in the way three decades in the life of an idealistic man, Jean Barnery, who, although began as an protestant priest, ended up becoming an industrialist in his family porcelain factory. Through the life of a complex character, a ...
Jul 5, 2002 · ‘Les Destinees” is a long, attentive epic about the span of a life and the seasons of a love. It will not appeal to the impatient, but those who like long books and movies will admire the way it accumulates power and depth.
