A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP

(Une relation dangereuse)

International Premiere | France | 2025 | Drama | 95 min | In French with English subtitles

Directed by: Nadège Loiseau
Written by: Douglas Kennedy, Marine Flores-Ruimi
Based on the Book by: Douglas Kennedy
Produced by: Odile McDonald (Wildcats Productions), France Télévisions, AT-Production
Cinematography: Martin Rit
Original Score: Guillaume Loiseau
Film Editing: Olga Pénot
Cast: Ophélia Kolb (Virginie), Grégory Fitoussi (Damien), Louise Monot (Delphine), Philippe Rebbot (the second lawyer), Laura Domenge (Louise), Florence Janas (Sophie)
International Sales: Film and Picture
Original Broadcasting: France 2 (TBA)

Synopsis

A Special Relationship opens with war photographer Virginie Faure walking through the corpse-ridden streets of a deserted, bombed-out city and saving a child’s life, eventually with the help of fellow-journalist Damian Gaudry. So begins a fortuitous, head-over-heels love story in the midst of death and utter chaos. But it’s only after Virginie discovers she’s pregnant that things slowly begin to spiral out of control, and she loses her emotional bearings. Adapted from Douglas Kennedy’s novel Une relation dangereuse, Nadège Loiseau‘s elliptical, highly poetic diary of a film recounts the story of one woman’s convoluted, at times harrowing, path to motherhood. 

Director’s biography

After graduating with a degree in applied arts and communications, Nadège Loiseau directed her first short, Une femme parfaite, for Les films fait à la maison, a series of shorts commissioned by Canal+, in 2007. She went on to direct another short, Le Locataire (2012), and the feature films A Bun in the Oven (2016) and Trois fois rien (2022). She has also directed episodes for the TV series The Paris Murders (2018); Christmas Flow (2021); and Une Belle Histoire (2019-2020), for which she and her collaborators won the Best TV Series Award at the La Rochelle TV Festival.