The Last Days of Chez Nous (1991)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Jan 1, 1991

Running Time: 96 mins.

Country Of Origin: Australia

starring: Lisa Harrow, Bruno Ganz, Kerry Fox, Miranda Otto, Kiri Paramore, Bill Hunter, Lex Marinos, Mickey Camilleri, Lynne Murphy, Clair Haywood

director: Gillian Armstrong

A novelist's lively sister moves into her house and shakes the family up a bit.

April 18, 2001

Women are at the heart of this extraordinary film, a Down Under Hannah and Her Sisters from Australian director Gillian Armstrong (My Brilliant Career) and writer Helen Garner (Two Friends). At Chez Nous, the house in Sydney she bought with her earnings as an author, Beth (the luminous Lisa Harrow) is the calm in a storm created by her discontented French husband, J.P. (Bruno Ganz), her distracted teen daughter, Annie (Miranda Otto), and her pregnant and unmarried sister, Vicki (Kerry Fox), home…