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Sentimental Destinies 2000

type: Movie

language: French

duration: 180 min

genre: drama

theme: dance

director: Olivier Assayas

Score: 4 / 10

Sentimental Destinies is a 2000 French drama film directed by Olivier Assayas. Running from the 1890s to the 1930s, the film tells the story of two wealthy Protestant families in the south-west of France: the Pommerels who make cognac and the Barnerys who make porcelain. It was entered into the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot

Uninterested in the pottery business, Jean Barnery is ordained as a pastor and marries Nathalie, a woman quite unsuited to the role. When her behaviour with another man excites comment, he sends her and their daughter Aline away with an allowance. When people start commenting that it is worse for a pastor to have a separated wife open to any mischief, he brings her back to the marital home. Then he meets Pauline Pommerel and loses his heart to her. He divorces Nathalie, gives up his calling, marries Pauline, and they move to a rural chalet in Switzerland, where they have a son they name Max. Though the three live simply on income from Jean's shares and are very happy together, as a divorced and unemployed ex-pastor Jean is despised in the conservative local community.

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More details

author	Jacques Fieschi Olivier Assayas
contentLocation	France
director	Olivier Assayas
editor	Luc Barnier
genre	drama
keywords	1914 war 1929 slump confine crash of 1929 deaconess divorce drink factory family business first world war pastor smoke unemployed wounded soldier young woman
nomination	César Award for Best Actress
producer	Bruno Pésery
publisher	Pathé
theme	dance