LE LAIT DE LA TENDRESSE HUMAINE
by Dominique Cabrera, Fiction, 95', 2001, 35mm, FRANCE/BELGIUM
With Dominique Blanc, Patrick Bruel, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Maryline Canto, Sergi Lopez

30-year-old Christelle, is married to Laurent. After giving birth to her third child, she flees her household and hides out in her neighbor’s apartment. As her husband searches desperately for her, the young mother takes comfort in the kindness of Claire her librarian neighbor and envies the woman’s respectability, not realizing that her caretaker is having an affair with a married man. While the two women speak to each other to try to restick the pieces, Laurent continues to the search for his wife.

DOMINIQUE CABRERA
Born in Relizane (Algeria) in 1957, Dominique Cabrera arrives in France in 1962. After studying humanities in Orleans, she studies at the IDHEC film school and in 1981 makes her first documentary while working as a movie editor for regional TV stations such as FR3. She starts up her own production company Ergonaute with Jean-Pierre Thorn and directs 4 short films and documentary on her pied-noir parents Ici là-bas in 1992. Then about fifteen films, both documentary and fictions related to Algeria or life in the Parisian suburbs such as: Chronique d’une banlieue ordinaire (1992), and Une poste à la Courneuve in 1994.