Nona is 70. She is a strong and committed woman who lives in Paris and has raised her triplet daughters alone. She is having a secret love affair with André. And it turns out she is pregnant! This news is quite a surprise, especially since André is not the father.
Then, who is? Nona's daughters decide to move back into the family apartment to support their mother and unveil this mystery - all while trying to navigate their own hectic lives. Between Gaby the sex therapist who falls for Nona's male midwife, George the dreamer and forever student, and Manu the mother of a large family who starts to question her marriage... the pregnancy will turn everyone’s lives upside down, in many ways…
‘Nona and her daughters’ is a marvelous tale, full of poetry and tenderness, which draws the crossed portraits of a mother and her full-of-life daughters, presenting also a beautiful gallery of kind and gentle men - composing a wonderful and terribly endearing family. A comical, sometimes fantastic and tinted with nostalgia, way of exploring new family forms.
CAST & CREW
Nona | played by Miou-Miou
Venerable actress and ten-time César Award nominee, Miou-Miou (Memoirs of a French Whore and This Sweet Sickness) stars as family matriarch, Nona, who runs a planned parenthood clinic in Paris. Nona is fiercely independent and does not feel the need to be forthcoming about her personal life, which now includes a pregnancy at the age of seventy. Nona is irritated at the fuss her grown triplet daughters, doctor, and lover André make about her pregnancy. As she comes to terms with the unwanted attention by her family and others, her role as mother is ever-present and gentle towards the family she already has.
George | played by Valérie Donzelli
Valérie Donzelli acts in and makes her television directorial debut in Nona and Her Daughters. George is the only daughter who never moved out of her childhood bedroom. She is forever looking for a thesis topic and re-focuses her academic energies on finding out the father of her soon-to-be born sibling. George enlists the help of Antoine, a genetics researcher, to solve the paternity mystery. Her partnership with Antoine is mismatched in many ways leading to inevitable consequences.
Gabrielle (Gaby) | played by Clotilde Hesme
Recently known for the role of Juliette Pelegrini in Lupin, Clotilde Hesme plays the career-driven sexologist Gabrielle (Gaby). As busy as Gaby is – there are books to promote and clients to see – Gaby’s confidence falters as she is confronted with her secret past while also conflicted about her attraction to Paou, her mom’s male midwife who moves into the cramped apartment to monitor Nona. Despite Gaby’s independence, she needs the support of her family the most.
Emmanuelle (Manu) | played by Virginie Ledoyen
Virginie Ledoyen has been acting since age 2, but is known outside of France for her role in The Beach (2000) with Leonardo DiCaprio. Emmanuelle (Manu) has taken the most domestic path out of the three daughters. With five kids and a husband who travels overseas for work, Manu is desperate to find something she can call her own. She thrives filling in for her mother as the head of a planned parenthood clinic.
PRODUCTION STILLS
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