1999 Madeleine (1999)

1999 Madeleine is the first step in an ambitious project by the French filmmaker Laurent Bouhnik to make one film per year between 19992009 recounting the turn of the century in an interweaving narrative pattern Episode one is about Madeline a lonely woman obsessed by religion and cleanliness Her solitary existence leads her to place an advertisement for a man willing to share his life with a single working 35yearold She is a woman of our times who is caught between the paradoxes of modern life and individual needs for communication The world offers her opportunities to satisfy material needs but unfortunately this is to the detriment of her spiritual needs