This is a story of two women and two different worlds. Betty Fisher (Sandrine Kiberlain) is a talented young writer who discovers the joys of maternal love with her son Joseph, who is four years of age. Carole (Mathilde Seigner) is a waitress in a shopping mall bar who has a tough life and who can only show her child José harshness and indifference. Ordinarily there would be no reason for these two women to meet, if it wasn't for Betty's excessive and unbalanced mother Margot (Nicole Garcia). She replaces Joseph, Betty's child who has since tragically disappeared, with the child of another...

Adapted from A Tree of Hands, the best-selling novel by celebrated British author Ruth Rendell, director Claude Miller has changed a brooding, obsessive, and menacing tale into something else altogether. Betty Fisher and other stories is chic, extremely clever, amoral, and hugely entertaining (it's been described as a French cross between Robert Altman's Short Cuts and The Talented Mr Ripley). The three actresses who play the mothers jointly won the Best Actress award at the Montreal Film Festival in 2001 where the film had its resoundingly successful North American premiere.

"Both a thriller and a psychological drama, (it) doesn't exploit any melodramatic effect and, even with traces of black humour, the film keeps us riveted to the action." (Annie Coppermann - Les Echos).

2000 France (101 min.)

Directed by Claude Miller
Writing Credits: Claude Miller
Cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicole Garcia, Mathilde Seignier, Edouard Baer, Yves Jacques, Roshdy Zem
Distributed by: Les Films de la Boissière.