He's in the will. She's in the way.
Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.
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Classical in form, intimate, contemporary and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Maggie SmithMathilde Girard
- Kevin KlineMathias Gold
- Kristin Scott ThomasChloé Girard
- Dominique PinonMonsieur Lefebvre
- Michael BurstinRabbi on Bicycle
- Elie WajemanMan at Gate
- Noémie LvovskyDr. Florence Horowitz
- Stéphane De GroodtPhillippe
- Stéphane FreissFrançois Roy
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- Israel HorovitzDirector
- Israel HorovitzScreenplay
- Michel AmathieuDirector of Photography
- Mark OrtonOriginal Music Composer
- Jacob CraycroftEditor
- Stephan AhnEditor
- Nitsa BenchetritProducer
- David C. BarrotProducer
- Rachael HorovitzProducer
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