Geneviève Garland, a famous actress, rehearses Andromache de Racine with her husband André as a partner. Feeling a deep discomfort from portraying this character she gives up her role to her best friend Isabelle, who in fact is the mistress of her husband and has long wanted to replace her. Geneviève then goes on a trip to the countryside with her sick son. is Vecchiali’s 30th feature film and most recent work. He made this film at his age of 90. The film begins with a tribute to his late sister and actress, Sonia Saviange, who played the main role in , which is another of Vecchiali’s film being featured at GIFF this year. is the story of an actress going through tumultuous emotions like the character played by Sonia in . Another thing the two films share is that they both largely rely on the performance of the main actress. The film’s star Basler eminently expresses diverse emotional status. The protagonist of Andromache de Racine and Geneviève are interconnected by destiny, which is well implied throughout the entire movie.

Paul VECCHIALI

He was born in 1930 and raised in Toulon, before going to polytechnic. His cinema takes as a starting point the French cinema of the 1930s, with an experimental and autobiographical tone. His best-known films are arguably and . In 1988, he became the first director to talk about AIDS and homosexuality in a French film with his film .