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ANTONIA’S LINE (ANTONIA) by Marleen Gorris | Netherlands, Belgium, France, UK, 1995 | fiction 102 min | Dutch with German subtitles

EN: A strong-willed Dutch woman recalls her life in this uplifting picture. Antonia is an elderly woman who wakes up one morning and realizes that this is the last day of her life. She begins to tell her story in flashbacks, beginning with her return to the family farm after World War II with her daughter, Danielle. For the next fifty years, a variety of colorful characters come and go on the farm. Danielle becomes a painter, and decides she wants a child but no husband, so Antonia arranges the proper donation. Danielle gives birth to Therese, who later has her own child, Sarah, also without a husband. Antonia and her descendants come to symbolize the freedom of independent females, with little need for men in their lives.

FR: A 90 ans, allongée sur son lit, Antonia se souvient du jour où, peu après la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, elle est revenue dans son village natal, au cœur de la campagne hollandaise. Très vite, son tempérament et celui de ses filles troublent la tranquillité des paysans du cru. La ferme d’Antonia devient un refuge pour les originaux et les vagabonds de passage. Malgré l’animosité, les préjugés et les rancœurs de certains, Antonia et ses filles parviendront à faire triompher leur amour de la vie tout en préservant leur indépendance.