LES DESTINEES
SENTIMENTALES
aka SENTIMENTAL DESTINIES

Year: 2000
USA: Wellspring
UK: Pathe Distribution
Cast: Emmanuelle Beart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Perrier, Dominique Reymond, Andre Marcon, Alexandra London, Julie Depardieu, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Valerie Bonneton, Pascal Bongard, Didier Flamand, Jean-Baptiste Malartre, Nicolas Pignon, Catherine Mouchet, Mia Hansen-Løve, Sophie Aubry, Victor Garrivier, JerOme Huguet, Mathieu Genet, Remi Martin, Roger Dumas, Jean-Pierre Gos, Saki Reid, Claire Hammond, Pierre Saternaer, Jocelyne Desverchere, Patricia Dinev, Christian Drillaud, Circe Lethem, Marilyne Even, Christophe Jazinski, Luc De Goustine, Barnaby Southcombe, Josephine Firino-Martell, Alexandre Marcos, Gregory Marcos
Director: Olivier Assayas
Countries: France / Switzerland
Language: French (English subtitles)
UK: 180 mins
UK Certificate: 12 for infrequent moderate sex and mild bad language
USA Release Date: 5 April 2002 (Limited Release - New York)
UK Release Date: 8 December 2000

Synopsis

Jean Barnery (Charles Berling) and Pauline (Emmanuelle Beart) first meet at a ball at Barbazac in the Charente region of France when she is twenty. He is a Protestant minister, the father of a young daughter, and has just resigned himself to the failure of his marriage with Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert). The pressures of the upstanding Protestant society surrounding them do not count since their "sentimental destinies" are closely bound.

In the tragic upheavals of a changing world marked by the incurable wound of the Great War and in which certainties and industrial dynasties crumble, the love of Jean and Pauline, in all its luminous permanence, is stronger than time passing, time passed.

"Love...there's nothing else in life...nothing"