Madeleine Collins

Premiered at the Giornate degli Autori of the 78th edition of the Venice International Film Festival. Antoine Barraud's new feature film ('Les gouffres', 'Le dos rouges') is a thriller about double identity in which a woman is involved who ends up falling into the trap of her own lies.

Judith (Virginie Efira) is a successful translator and interpreter who has to balance her personal and work life between France and Switzerland, due to her work. Everything seems to be going well, but she, Judith, hides a double life, having two families in both countries. In France, she lives with Abdel (Quim Gutiérrez), with whom she has a young daughter. In Switzerland, she is married to Melvil (Bruno Salomone), with whom she has two grown sons. Gradually, the fragile balance of lies on which she is based, her life begins to unravel. With the farce, full of secrets and comings and goings, on the verge of collapse, Judith, desperate to feel unmasked, opts to flee ahead of her.

Directed and written by Antoine Barraud, this French-Swiss-Belgian co-production stars Virginie Efira, Quim Gutiérrez, Bruno Salomone, Jacqueline Bisset, François Rostain, Loïse Benguerel, Thomas Gioria, Valérie Donzelli, Nadav Lapid and Nathalie Boutefeu. 'Madeleine Collins' is a Les Films du Bélier production, co-produced by Swiss Close Up Films and Belgian Frakas Productions.