THE MIDWIFE
by Martin Provost
Synopsis: Claire is a wonderfully gifted midwife, with a natural talent to deliver babies with the most gentle touch. But over the years, her delicate ways, her sense of pride and responsibility are clashing with the more efficiency-driven methods of modern hospitals. Closer to the end of her career than to its beginning, she’s starting to question her place and her skills. One day she receives a strange phone call, a voice from the past. Béatrice, the extravagant and frivolous mistress of her deceased father, has important and pressing news and wants to see her again, 30 years after having disappeared without a trace. Opposed in every way, the over-conscientious Claire - bordering inhibition - and the free-spirit, life-loving Béatrice, will learn to accept one another and by revealing old secrets will start to make up for the lost years.
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Frot and Olivier Gourmet.
2017 / France / 117 min / French
Produced by Fidélité-Curiosa (The Odyssey, Marguerite, Le Petit Nicolas) and France 3 Cinéma, Gabriel Inc., Memento Films Production, La Cinéfacture.
“Provost has once again proven to be a sensitive and sure-handed director of what used to be called ‘women’s films’…”
— The Hollywood Reporter
“France’s two most bankable actresses - Catherine Frot and Catherine Deneuve - give viewers their money’s worth in The Midwife, a bittersweet delight”
— Screen International
“A jubilant and moving face to face”
— Télérama
