Human Affairs

A dramatic and captivating story about the destructive power of passion.
Based on the novel, which has won the “Interallie” Prize and the Goncourt Prize for Lycéens, Ivan Attal is making a film starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Mathieu Kassovitz in the main roles.
Writer and essayist Claire Davis-Farrell leaves her husband, the famous television presenter Jean, for a modest French teacher, Adam. The cause is passion. A passion that destroys two families at once. Claire's family and Adam's family, who leaves his wife Valerie. The accidental victims of this passion are Claire's son Alexander, who recently entered a prestigious university, and Adam's daughter Mila. And while none of them yet knows how dramatic the consequences of such an understandable and seemingly right decision by Claire and Adam to follow their feelings to the end will be. Isn't this what poets sing about, and isn't this what we call love? The novel "Human Affairs," which brought Karine Tuil worldwide fame, is a true labyrinth of human relationships built on passion and indifference. Indifference that pushes to the most insane acts, and passion that at some point can become simply frightening and dangerous.