The Promised Life (2002)

Director: Olivier Dahan

Sylvie is a hooker whose illegitimate daughter commits a crime. She and her daughter flee to find Sylvie's first love in the countryside. The daughter is trying to get to know her unwilling mother. Along the way, the two meet a male fugitive and bond with each other.

Cast

Isabelle Huppert

Sylvia

Pascal Greggory

Joshua

Maud Forget

Laurence

Fabienne Babe

Sandra

André Marcon

Piotr

Louis-Do de Lencquesaing

Mackerel

David Martins

Mackerel

Édith Le Merdy

Woman of the hamlet

Denis Braccini

Plainclothes policeman

Irène Ismaïloff

Wife of the plainclothes policeman