Mademoiselle Chambon

Classification 14 After the international success of Not Here To Be Loved, acclaimed French director Stéphane Brizé returns with Mademoiselle Chambon, a beautifully crafted romantic drama with enormous grace and subtlety, based on the novel by Éric Holder and Winner of Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2010 César Awards.

Starring Vincent Lindon ( Anything For Her), Sandrine Kiberlain ( A Self Made Hero), Aure Atika ( The Beat That My Heart Skipped) and set to a wonderful classical soundtrack by Ange Ghinozzi, Mademoiselle Chambon is a an elegant, moving tale of an unexpected romance between a married man, Jean (Vincent Lindon) and his son’s school teacher, Véronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain, Lindon’s former wife) and their desperate attempt to keep their desires from spiraling into a full-blown affair, which threatens to turn everything around them upside done.

Jean leads a pretty ordinary life: he spends his days happily between his construction sites and his house, with his loving wife and son. He feels comfortable in his routine. One day, as he’s picking up Kevin from school, he stumbles upon Mademoiselle Chambon, his son’s teacher. She’s discreet, elegant, mesmerizing, unlike any woman he has ever met before.

This chance encounter will be a turning point in his well-organized life. An opportunity to change or a folly to regret?