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He's in the will. She's in the way.
Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.Read moreLess
Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.
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Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Maggie SmithMathilde Girard
Kevin KlineMathias Gold
Kristin Scott ThomasChloé Girard
Dominique PinonMonsieur Lefebvre
Elie WajemanMan at Gate
Noémie LvovskyDr. Florence Horowitz
Stéphane De GroodtPhillippe
Stéphane FreissFrançois RoyExplore the crew
- Director
- Israel Horovitz
- Screenplay
- Israel Horovitz
- Producer
- Nitsa Benchetrit
- Producer
- Gary Foster
- Editor
- Jacob Craycroft
- Original Music Composer
- Mark Orton
- Producer
- Rachael Horovitz
- Editor
- Stephan Ahn
- Producer
- David C. Barrot
- Director of Photography
- Michel Amathieu