'' Hidden Diary'' (also titled ''Mères et filles'' and ''La Cuisine'') is a 2009 Franco-Canadian

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Julie Lopes-Curval Julie Lopes-Curval is a French film director, screenwriter, theatre director, and playwright. Her directorial debut ''Seaside (film), Seaside'' was showcased in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the C ...

. The film tells the story of three generations of women, starring

Catherine Deneuve Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (born 22 October 1943), known professionally as Catherine Deneuve (, , ), is a French actress. She is considered one of the greatest European actresses on film. In 2020, ''The New York Times'' ranked her as one of th ...

, Marina Hands and

Marie-Josée Croze Marie-Josée Croze (; born February 23, 1970) is a Canadian actress. She also holds French nationality, which she obtained in December 2012. Early life Croze was born in Montreal, Quebec, was adopted, and grew up in Longueuil with four other c ...

Cast

as Martine * Marina Hands as Audrey *

as Louise *

Michel Duchaussoy Michel René Jacques Duchaussoy (29 November 1938 – 13 March 2012) was a French film actor, who appeared in more than 130 films between 1962 and 2012. At first a theatre actor, he worked for many years in the Comédie Française, where he ...

as Michel *

Carole Franck Carole Franck is a French actress. Filmography Dubbing Theatre References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Franck, Carole Living people French film actresses French television actresses Actresses from Paris 20th-century Fre ...

as Evelyne * Jean-Philippe Écoffey as Gérard * Éléonore Hirt as Suzanne *

Gérard Watkins Gérard Watkins (born 4 July 1965) is an English-French actor, playwright, director, and songwriter. He graduated from Lycée de St Germain en Laye in 1983. As a stage actor, he has performed in over forty productions in Paris with such direct ...

as Gilles *

Romano Orzari Romano Orzari (born 12 December 1964) is a Canadian film and television actor. He played Hoagy Carmichael in '' Bix'' (1991), Pvt. Jimmy Rassi in ''Silent Night "Silent Night" () is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xa ...

as Tom * Nans Laborde as Pierre * Meriem Serbah as Samira * Louison Bergman as the young Martine * Arthur Lurcin as the young Gérard * Manon Percept as the young Audrey

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* 2009 films 2009 drama films 2000s French-language films French drama films Canadian drama films Films about dysfunctional families Films directed by Julie Lopes-Curval French-language Canadian films 2000s Canadian films 2000s French films BAC Films films French-language drama films {{2000s-drama-film-stub