Villa des Roses

2002 film by Frank Van Passel

Julie Delpy
Shaun Dingwall

Release date

2002 (2002)

LanguageEnglish

Villa des Roses is a 2002 film by Frank Van Passel, adapted from the 1913 novella by Belgian writer Willem Elsschot and starring Julie Delpy, Shaun Dingwall, Shirley Henderson, Timothy West, Harriet Walter and Albert Delpy. It won Best Feature at the Hollywood Film Festival and was nominated for three awards at the British Independent Film Awards.^[1]

Delpy plays Louise, a young widow who starts work just before the First World War as a maid at the dilapidated Villa des Roses, an English-owned guest house in Paris, where she falls in love with a German artist played by Dingwall.^[2]

Cast

Julie Delpy as Louise Créteur
Shaun Dingwall as Richard Grünewald
Harriet Walter as Olive Burrell
Shirley Henderson as Ella
Timothy West as Hugh Burrell
Frank Vercruyssen as Aasgaard
Toni Barry as Mrs. Bunny Wimhurst
Jan Decleir as Monsieur Brizard
Dora van der Groen as Mrs. Gendron
Albert Delpy as Antoine Créteur
Stéphane Excoffier as Jeanne de Keros
Rifka Lodeizen as Radsky
Halina Reijn as Natsje
Maya van den Broecke as Anna Kuprinski
Gary Whelan as Mr. O'Connor
Alfredo Pea as Mr. Craxi
John Dobrynine as Eustache Lejeune

References

^ Hunter, Allan (21 October 2002). "Villa Des Roses". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 13 December 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2009.
^ Neill, Heather (13 October 2002). "Mistress of the roles". The Independent on Sunday. Retrieved 29 November 2009.^{[dead link]}