A Song of Innocence

A Song of Innocence

90 mins | Aug. 31, 2005

Antoine Santana - Issues of class, gender roles and parenting bubble to the surface in this 19th-century tale about a shepherd girl (Isild Le Besco) who farms off her own newborn to a wet nurse in the countryside so that she can earn high wages nursing the infant of a wealthy couple. The two young mothers soon become friends, but trouble arises when the bourgeois hubby takes issue with his wife fraternizing with the help. Émilie Dequenne and Grégoire Colin star. - Isild Le Besco, Émilie Dequenne, Grégoire Colin

A Song of Innocence

90 mins | Aug. 31, 2005

A Song of Innocence
Antoine Santana - Issues of class, gender roles and parenting bubble to the surface in this 19th-century tale about a shepherd girl (Isild Le Besco) who farms off her own newborn to a wet nurse in the countryside so that she can earn high wages nursing the infant of a wealthy couple. The two young mothers soon become friends, but trouble arises when the bourgeois hubby takes issue with his wife fraternizing with the help. Émilie Dequenne and Grégoire Colin star. - Isild Le Besco, Émilie Dequenne, Grégoire Colin
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers
Original title La ravisseuse
Directors Antoine Santana
Writers Véronique Puybaret, Antoine Santana

Cast

Isild Le Besco

as Angèle-Marie

Émilie Dequenne

as Charlotte

Grégoire Colin

as Julien

Anémone

as Léonce

Bernard Blancan

as Jacques

Frédéric Pierrot

as Rodolphe