Another Woman's Life

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Another Woman's Life
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French La vie d'une autre
Directed by Sylvie Testud
Based onLa Vie d'une Autre
by Frédérique Deghelt
Starring Juliette Binoche
Mathieu Kassovitz
Release date
  • 15 February 2012 (2012-02-15)
Running time
97 minutes
CountriesFrance
Belgium
Luxembourg
LanguageFrench

Another Woman's Life (French : La Vie d'une autre) is a 2012 international co-production comedy film directed by Sylvie Testud. [1]

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References

  1. Van Hoeij, Boyd (2012-03-22). "Another Woman's Life". Variety . Retrieved 2018-04-02.