Faustine and the Beautiful Summer

Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two brothers live in the large house. One is divorced and one has recently remarried, both of them live there with their teenaged and adult children. Though the boys of the household are drawn to Faustine, she grows ever more smitten with the divorced older man...

Cast

Muriel Catalá

as Faustine

Claire Vernet

as Claire

Jacques Spiesser

as Florent

Francis Huster

as Joachim

Georges Marchal

as Julien

Isabelle Adjani

as Camille

Marianne Eggerickx

as Ariane

Maurice Garrel

as Jean

Jacques Weber

as Haroun

Valentine Varela

as Marie

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