

She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't anyone warn me? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about this?" Un heureux événement, or an intimate view of motherhood, sincere and with no taboos.
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Cast

Louise Bourgoin
Barbara

Pio Marmaï
Nicolas

Josiane Balasko
Claire

Thierry Frémont
Tony

Gabrielle Lazure
Édith

Firmine Richard
La sage-femme

Anaïs Croze
Daphné

Daphné Bürki
Katia - la soeur de Barbara

Lannick Gautry
Le docteur Camille Rose

Nicole Valberg
La gynécologue

Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
Jean-François Truffard - le prof de philo

Ophélie Koering
La vendeuse du sex-shop
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