Cinema Epoch Had ‘Hidden Love’ for Huppert-Laurent Drama

Cinema Epoch proves that it’s never too late to show some love for some lost festival films – the trades report that the Alessandro Capone directed drama which received its world premiere at TIFF all the way back in 07′ has been picked up and will be set with a January release date next year. The pic would be released around the same time that Melanie Laurent in Q.T’s Basterds receives its home vid release.

By the looks of the trailer below, L’Amour Cache (Hidden Love) look like an uncomfortable film and though it sees Isabelle Huppert in the lead, according to Variety she “is ideally cast as an emotionally entombed mother haunted by memories of her only daughter, director Alessandro Capone’s conception (working in his non-native French) is studied, with a gummy pace and an inability to reach emotional catharsis that leaves just a hint of what the movie could have been.”

After three suicide attempts, Danielle (Isabelle Huppert), haunted by every breath of the daughter she bore, is a virtual prisoner in a psychiatric clinic where an ambitious analyst, Dr. Nielsen (Greta Scacchi), tries to discover the reasons behind her incomprehensible hatred of motherhood. Believing that she is an ugly human being that has given life to another ugly human being, Danielle sees only a hostile and intrusive enemy in her daughter, Sophie (Mélanie Laurent). However, through the analyst’s constant probing, Danielle finally voices the reality of her isolated childhood, a hasty marriage and the pain of a forced pregnancy that only gave birth to intolerance and self-loathing.