12 May 2018
Roles We Play
An older professor longing for motherhood must recalibrate her path to pregnancy when she realizes one of her favorite students is a potential sperm donor.
A Happy Event
She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't anyone warn me? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about this?" Un heureux événement, or an intimate view of motherhood, sincere and with no taboos.
Top Billed Cast
Louise Bourgoin Barbara
Pio Marmaï Nicolas
Josiane Balasko Claire
Thierry Frémont Tony
Gabrielle Lazure Édith
Firmine Richard La sage-femme
Anaïs Croze Daphné
Daphné Bürki Katia - la soeur de Barbara
Lannick Gautry Le docteur Camille Rose
Nicole Valberg La gynécologue
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing Jean-François Truffard - le prof de philo
Ophélie Koering La vendeuse du sex-shop
Amélie Glenn La vendeuse du Maman à Tous Prix
Patrick Spadrille Daniel
Bruno Georis Le docteur Marcaurel
Dominique Baeyens Mme Tordjmann - la voisine
Michel Nabokoff M. Tordjman - le voisin
Aïssatou Diop Une femme membre du Club du Lait
Fanny Hanciaux Une femme membre du Club du Lait
Laure Voglaire Une femme membre du Club du Lait
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