Villa des Roses (2002)

Original title

Villa Des Roses

Directed by

Frank Van Passel

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Belgium

Runtime

1h 58m

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young widow takes a job as a maid at a rundown guest house in Paris just before World War One. She falls in love with a German artist staying there.

periodromantictragicsomberslow-pacedmelancholicatmospheric

What happens

Villa des Roses is a 2002 film by Frank Van Passel, adapted from the 1913 novella by Belgian writer Willem Elsschot and starring Julie Delpy, Shaun Dingwall, Shirley Henderson, Timothy West, Harriet Walter and Albert Delpy. It won Best Feature at the Hollywood Film Festival and was nominated for three awards at the British Independent Film Awards. Delpy plays Louise, a young widow who starts work just before the First World War as a maid at the dilapidated Villa des Roses, an English-owned guest house in Paris, where she falls in love with a German artist played by Dingwall. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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