La Vérité Vraie

TV Movie, 90min, France 1999
Saturday, June 3th, 16:30 hrs, 

Director: Fabrice Cazeneuve
Script: Jean-Luc Seigle
Photography: Pierre Novion, Pierre-Laurent Chenieux
Editor: Jean-Pierre Bloc
Music: Michel Portal
Casting: Pascal Poullain
Principal Cast: Béatrice Dalle, Julien Rochefort, Christiane Cohendy, Mathias Labelle

Producer: Fabienne Servan Schreiber
Executive Producer: Jean-Pierre Fayer
Production: Cinétévé in association with France 2, M6

Distribution: Cinétévé

First Broadcast: 15.03.2000, 20:50 France 2

Selected Filmography Fabrice Cazeneuve: De gré ou de force, 1999; L'Enfant sage, 1996; La Musique de l'amour: Un amour inachevé, 1996; Avoir 20 and dans les petites villes, 1995.

Cathy (Béatrice Dalle) is a prostitute fighting with the authorities for custody of her son Lucien when she is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Three months are all the time she has to get things in order – forever. A masterpiece: despite the precarious circumstances, director Fabrice Cazenave keeps the film from becoming a morally sour scene study or some sort of beatific idolization of the events. He hits the right tone, not just in the social limbo of the film but also in the existential limbo between life and death. A believable work, its credibility not lastly the result of the spectacular performance of Béatrice Dalle ("Betty Blue").