I don't speak French, but I get the gist of 'imbΓ©cile'.
Mathias (Kevin Kline) is a down-and-out New Yorker who travels to Paris to liquidate a huge, valuable apartment he has inherited from his estranged father. Once there, however, he discovers a refined old woman Mathilde (Maggie Smith) living in the apartment with her daughter ChloΓ© (Kristin Scott Thomas).
Mathias quickly learns that the apartment is a βviagerβ β an ancient French system for buying and selling apartments β and that he will not actually get possession of the apartment until Mathilde dies. While working with a Parisian real-estate dealer (Dominique Pinon), to sell his contract for the apartment, Mathias discovers that Mathilde and his father were lovers for more than 50 years.
Starring:
Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Dominique Pinon, Stéphane Freiss, Noémie Lvovsky
Director:
Israel Horovitz
Producers:
Rachael Horovitz, Gary Foster, Nitsa Benchetrit, David Barrot
Screenplay:
Israel Horovitz
Executive Producers:
Charles Cohen , Daniel Batsek, Christine Langan, Joe Oppenheimer
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Credits summary:
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Films presents in association with Protagonist Pictures and Tumbledown Productions Limited A Deux Chevaux/Katsize Films Production in association with Krasnoff/Foster Entertainment An Israel Horovitz Film
Certificate:
12A
Running time:
107 mins
Released
21 November 2014
Out on DVD
16 March 2015
Broadcast on
12 May 2018