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Charlotte Brontë reminds certain episodes of her life with her father, the reverend Brontë, her two sisters Emily and Anne and her brother Brandwell. While the three sisters wrote novels, poems, their brother artist-painter fell in love with Mrs Robinson, seventeen years older, who, in spite of the death of her husband, did not want to marry him. Brandwell was addicted to alcohol and drug, died at the end of his decadence, at the age of 31. A little later Emily was overcome by tuberculosis. Discrete Anne died in the following year. Charlotte remained alone, increased her literary success. In 1854, she marries Mr. Nicholls. With her father and her husband, only Charlotte seemed happy.

With: Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Pascal Greggory, Isabelle Huppert, Patrick Magee, Hélène Surgère, Roland Bertin, Alice Sapritch, Xavier Depraz, Adrian Brine.