Villa Des Roses
It Was The Beginning Of The End Of Innocence.
Welcome to Paris, 1913. In the months leading up to the First World War, beautiful young widow Louise Creteur (Julie Delpy) arrives at Villa De Roses to work as a chambermaid. But the "Villa" turns out to be a dilapidated old mansion run by an eccentric British couple. Inhabiting the crumbling manor is a colorful assortment of oddballs, opportunists and lost souls presided over by Ella (Shirley Henderson), the gossipy cook, who secretly spies on everyone in the house. Louise takes it all in stride until her passionate romance with one of the tenants, a handsome German artist, spirals dangerously out of control...