The New Eve
1999 · Movie · 94 min. · France
La Nouvelle Eve is a bittersweet comedy about an independent woman, thirty-ish and single, and her unexpected need for the affections of a forty-ish balding family man with no interest in acquiring a mistress. Camille (Karin Viard) works as a lifeguard at an indoor swimming pool in Paris. The idea of domesticity bores her to tears; she would rather see herself having kinky sex in elevators or restrooms than carrying a baby in her arms. But something has been missing in her life, and she's absent-minded and irritable. When she trips on the street and falls, Alexis (Pierre-Loup Rajot) offers her his handkerchief. Camille is self-destructive in her obsession to possess Alexis. But Alexis is not totally indifferent, either.
Direction Catherine Corsini
Cast Karin Viard · Pierre-Loup Rajot · Catherine Frot · Sergi López · Mireille Roussel · Nozha Khouadra · Laurent Lucas · Valentine Vidal
Screenplay Catherine Corsini · Marc Syrigas
Cinematography Agnès Godard · William O'Callaghan · Thérèse Somano
Original title La nouvelle Ève
5.9
47 votes (FilmAffinity)
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