Madame de Sévigné

In the middle of the 17th century, the Marquise de Sévigné (Karin Viard) sets out to raise her daughter Françoise (Ana Girardot) into a brilliant, independent woman in her own image. The harder she tries to steer the young woman's life, the further Françoise pulls away, and what grows between them is a devastating passion. Isabelle Brocard builds the film around the letters that mother wrote to her daughter.