French Film Festival 2021 (Shaw)
Eugenie Grandet
Language
French with English subtitles
Cast
Joséphine Japy, Olivier Gourmet, Valérie Bonneton, César Domboy, Philippe du Janerand
Synopsis
Felix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugenie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious, he does not take a favourable view of the beautiful parties who rush to ask for his daughter’s hand. Nothing should damage the colossal fortune he hides from everyone. The sudden arrival of Grandet’s nephew, an orphaned and ruined Parisian dandy, turns the young girl’s life upside down. Adapted from Honoré de Balzac novel Eugénie Grandet.