Featuring Isabelle Huppert in a delicious, tailor-made role, writer/director Theirry Klifa’s THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD is freely inspired by the captivating real-life scandal surrounding Liliane Bettencourt, the heir to the L’Oreal fortune.
Marianne Farrère (Huppert), the billionaire head of the Windler Group, is the richest woman in the world. Pierre-Alain Fantin (Laurent Lafitte), is a Parisian dandy, writer and photographer. After meeting on a photo shoot, the two become inseparable. Their friendship – one where Pierre-Alain is only too happy to take financial advantage - surprises, amuses, intrigues, and eventually unsettles the billionaire’s entourage and family.
Marianne’s daughter (Marina Fois), in particular, struggles with her mother’s sudden complicity with this younger man, and launches a private investigation that will have serious ramifications for all...