34-year-old playwright with a terminal illness. Returns home after 12 years to reunite with his family. Plans to reveal his impending death but leaves without doing so. Former lover Pierre Jolicoeur recently died. Interacts with mother Martine, brother Antoine, brother's wife Catherine, and younger sister Suzanne.
One of five French soldiers convicted of self-mutilation to escape WWI service and sentenced to face certain death in no man's land. He carved MMM on a church bell to signal his love for Mathilde. Though presumed dead, he survives the battle but suffers from amnesia, leaving him oblivious to Mathilde upon their reunion.
Margot’s lover and scene partner, Igor reacts to her unexpected pregnancy with emotional pressure and hostility. His complicated power over Margot intensifies her distress and makes it difficult for her to perform opposite him.
Basile is a participant in the revolutionary popular movement. He joins Françoise and Margot at the Champ-de-Mars, signs demands for Louis XVI’s abdication, and accepts that pursuing freedom may bring dangerous chaos. His action places him among citizens challenging the Assembly and monarchy.
A leading French fashion designer whose career and private life form the film’s central story. He builds an internationally successful fashion house, recruits Betty Catroux, maintains a long relationship with Pierre Bergé, and becomes increasingly consumed by nightlife, alcohol, drugs, and a turbulent affair with Jacques de Bascher.
Anton Malakian is Milo Malakian's son and one of the film's two central figures. His connection to Milo places him within the gang leader's family story, and both are described as descendants of Armenian genocide survivors.
Young version of the infamous cannibal, tracing his traumatic origins.
Joseph is the mother's son and a central member of the struggling family. As the sea destroys their rice harvest and poverty deepens, he becomes increasingly desperate and hostile. His illness with dengue fever further threatens the family's survival and intensifies the pressure on his mother and sister.
Louis is connected to Loïe through a turbulent love affair that is placed under strain when the young Isadora Duncan enters Loïe’s life. Although the plot summary gives no further account of his profession or actions, his relationship with the protagonist makes him part of the story’s central emotional conflict.
He is a resourceful seventeen-year-old fugitive from a reformatory who guides Odile and her children through the forest. He breaks into the house, cuts its phone lines, hunts and scavenges for food, and becomes close to the family. He loves Odile, wants to marry her, distrusts the soldiers, and later dies by suicide after the police catch him.
Véro's eldest son, appears as the stable anchor in chaotic family.
Minor character delivering brief but impactful narrative beats.
Gaspard Ulliel has 50 screen credits in a career dating back to 1998. Their work spans 3 cinematic universes — most prominently Hannibal Lecter with 1 titles. Signature works include It's Only the End of the World, One Nation, One King, Saint Laurent. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.
Universe traveler — spans 3 universes
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