Villa des Roses is a 2002 film by Frank Van Passel, adapted from the 1913 novella by Belgian writer Willem Elsschot

Willem Elsschot

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 and starring Julie Delpy

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, Shaun Dingwall

Shaun Dingwall

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, Shirley Henderson

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, Timothy West

Timothy West

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 and Harriet Walter

Harriet Walter

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. It won Best Feature at the Hollywood Film Festival

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 and was nominated for three awards at the British Independent Film Awards

British Independent Film Awards

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Delpy plays Louise, a young widow who starts work just before the First World War as a maid at the dilapidated Villa des Roses, an English-owned guest house in Paris, where she falls in love with a German artist played by Dingwall.