The World Premiere of UN SECRET by veteran French filmmaker Claude Miller (GARDE A VUE, LA PETITE VOLEUSE) will screen this evening as the Closing Night Gala of the Montreal World Film Festival. The director will be in attendance. Cecile De France, Mathieu Almaric, Patrick Bruel, Julie Depardieu and Ludivine Sagnier star in this lavish period piece about remembrance and secrets in a French family. .

UN SECRET, based on a best-selling autobiographical novel by Phillippe Grimbert, tells the story of a boy's uncovering a dark secret about his family's past. Set in several time periods, the film focuses on young Francois, a sickly and solitary boy who cannot understand the remoteness and criticalness of his father. A family friend finally reveals to him the shattering story that traces the meeting of his parents during the tumultous Occupation of the Second World War and the secrets that both his parents keep from him. This secret involves illicilt passion, jealousy and the loss of loved ones to the scourge of the Holocaust.

UN SECRET is Claude Miller's 13th feature and caps off a career that began in the 1970s with such milestone films as LA MEILLEURE FACON DE MARCHER and DITES-LUI QUE JE L'AIME. The film is being released in Canada later this year by TVA Films.

Sandy Mandelberger, Montreal World FF Dailies Editor