In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.
Movie tag line: "Bertrand Tavernier's magnificent portrait of French family life on the brink of World War I"
Production companies:
Character: Iréne
Character: Monsieur Ladmiral
Character: Gonzague
Character: Mercedes
Character: Marie-Thérèse
Character: Emile
Character: Lucien
Character: Mireille
Character: Madame Ladmiral
Character: le pêcheur
Character: la serveuse
Character: une petite fille
Character: une petite fille
Character: l'accordéoniste
Character: Le narrateur