À ton image

À ton image is a 2004 French film directed by Aruna Villiers. The story, based on the novel À ton image by Louise L. Lambrichs, is about a couple whose desire for a child leads them onto dangerous ground. In order to put a painful past and a terrible sense of guilt behind her, a sterile young woman named Mathilde uses extreme cloning methods to give birth to Manon , and is comforted by her obstetrician husband Thomas . The child’s growth is abnormally rapid and she becomes the splitting image of her mother. Gradually, the relation between them evolves in an odd manner as... Manon takes over her mother’s role in the family.
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