''Villa des Roses'' is a 2002 film by
Frank Van Passel
Frank Van Passel (born 23 June 1964) is a Belgian film director and producer. In 1995, he made his directorial film debut with ''Manneken Pis'', which premiered at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival and won the Mercedes-Benz Award, Grand Golden Rail, A ...
, adapted from the 1913 novella by Belgian writer
Willem Elsschot
Alphonsus Josephus de Ridder (7 May 1882 – 31 May 1960), was a Belgian writer and poet who wrote under the pseudonym Willem Elsschot (). One of the most prominent Flemish authors, his most famous work, ''Cheese'' (1933) is the most translated ...
and starring
Julie Delpy
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,
Shaun Dingwall
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Early life
Shaun Dingwall was ...
,
Shirley Henderson
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,
Timothy West
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,
Harriet Walter
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and
Albert Delpy
Albert Delpy (born 13 September 1941) is a Vietnamese-born French actor and writer. He has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1970.
Personal life
He is the father of Julie Delpy
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. It won Best Feature at the
Hollywood Film Festival
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History
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and was nominated for three awards at the
British Independent Film Awards
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.
Delpy plays Louise, a young widow who starts work just before the
First World War
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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.
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2002 films
Belgian drama films
English-language Belgian films
Dutch drama films
English-language Dutch films
Luxembourgian drama films
English-language Luxembourgian films
British drama films
Films set in the 1910s
Films set in Paris
Films based on works by Willem Elsschot
Films directed by Frank Van Passel
2000s English-language films
2000s British films
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