{"id":22769,"date":"2025-07-02T16:41:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=22769"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:09:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:09:39","slug":"a-special-relationship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/a-special-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP<\/h1>\n

(Une relation dangereuse)<\/h2>\n

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MELVILLE THEATER<\/p>\n

Drama<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/mk_content_box][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mk_custom_box corner_radius=”15″ bg_color=”#dbcce2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1759338483077{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

THURSDAY OCTOBER 30<\/strong>
\n1:00 pm (Screening ends at 2:40 pm)
\nSATURDAY NOVEMBER 1<\/strong>
\n9:00 am (Screening ends at 110:40 am)
\nSUNDAY NOVEMBER 2<\/strong>
\n8:10 pm (Screening ends at 9:50 pm)
\nMONDAY NOVEMBER 3<\/strong>
\n11:00 am ( screening ends at 12:40 pm)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/mk_custom_box][mk_padding_divider size=”10″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mk_content_box heading=”PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH:”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1758903985988{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

Film & Picture
\nFrance T\u00e9l\u00e9visions<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/mk_content_box][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”2″ css=”” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1758287844053{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]International Premiere<\/span><\/strong> | France | 2025 | Drama | 95 min | In French with English subtitles <\/span><\/p>\n

Directed by: <\/b>Nad\u00e8ge Loiseau<\/span>
\n<\/b>Written by: <\/b>Douglas Kennedy, Marine Flores-Ruimi<\/span>
\n<\/span>Based on the Book by:<\/b> Douglas Kennedy<\/span>
\n<\/span>Produced by: <\/b>Odile McDonald (Wildcats Productions), France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions, AT-Production
\n<\/span>Cinematography:\u00a0<\/b>Martin Rit
\n<\/span>Original Score: <\/b>Guillaume Loiseau
\n<\/span>Film Editing:<\/b> Olga P\u00e9not
\n<\/span>Cast:<\/b> Oph\u00e9lia Kolb (Virginie), Gr\u00e9gory Fitoussi (Damien), Louise Monot (Delphine), Philippe Rebbot (the second lawyer), Laura Domenge (Louise), Florence Janas (Sophie)
\n<\/span>International Sales: <\/b>Film and Picture<\/span>
\n<\/span>Original Broadcasting<\/b>: France 2 (TBA)<\/span><\/p>\n

Synopsis<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A Special Relationship<\/b><\/em> opens with war photographer Virginie Faure walking through the corpse-ridden streets of a deserted, bombed-out city and saving a child’s life, eventually with the help of fellow-journalist Damian Gaudry. So begins a fortuitous, head-over-heels love story in the midst of death and utter chaos. But it’s only after Virginie discovers she’s pregnant that things slowly begin to spiral out of control, and she loses her emotional bearings. Adapted from Douglas Kennedy’s novel <\/span>Une relation dangereuse<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Nad\u00e8ge Loiseau<\/b>‘s elliptical, highly poetic diary of a film recounts the story of one woman’s convoluted, at times harrowing, path to motherhood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Director’s biography<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

After graduating with a degree in applied arts and communications, <\/span>Nad\u00e8ge Loiseau<\/b> directed her first short, <\/span>Une femme parfaite<\/span><\/i>, for <\/span>Les films fait \u00e0 la maison<\/span><\/i>, a series of shorts commissioned by Canal+, in 2007. She went on to direct another short, <\/span>Le Locataire<\/span><\/i> (2012), and the feature films <\/span>A Bun in the Oven<\/span><\/i> (2016) and <\/span>Trois fois rien<\/span><\/i> (2022). She has also directed episodes for the TV series <\/span>The Paris Murders<\/span><\/i> (2018); <\/span>Christmas Flow<\/span><\/i> (2021); and <\/span>Une Belle Histoire<\/span><\/i> (2019-2020), for which she and her collaborators won the Best TV Series Award at the La Rochelle TV Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/screenshot-2025-09-28-at-10.07.49.png” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/win-a-cruise-for-two-in-europe\/” target=”_blank” align=”center”][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/a-special-relationship.jpg” image_size=”full” frame_style=”gray_border” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1755452823601{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP (Une relation dangereuse)   [\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” css=”” accent_color=”#660084″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mk_content_box heading=”TELEVISION COMPETITION”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1758558681493{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] MELVILLE THEATER Drama [\/vc_column_text][\/mk_content_box][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mk_custom_box corner_radius=”15″ bg_color=”#dbcce2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1759338483077{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] THURSDAY OCTOBER 30 1:00 pm (Screening ends at 2:40 pm) SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1 9:00 am (Screening ends at 110:40 am) SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2 8:10 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22769","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22769"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24812,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22769\/revisions\/24812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}