L'Odeur de la mandarine (2015)

Directed by

Gilles Legrand

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 50m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 24 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In wartime France, a mother and her child take shelter at a retired general's estate. She marries him under an agreement to have no children but their marriage faces strains leading her to an affair with a horse keeper.

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What happens

The Scent of Mandarin (French: L'Odeur de la mandarine) is a 2015 French drama film directed by Gilles Legrand. It stars Olivier Gourmet and Georgia Scalliet. It was nominated for two César Awards at the 41st César Awards. The mother and her child have to seek shelter under the manor of kind and rich retired general. He and the mother decide to marry but they plan to have no children. The general and the mother having trouble in bed. The general decides to satisfy through prostitution. The mother quite piss about this and decide to hump with the horse keeper who has already kept an eye on her for sometime. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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