A mother abandons her daughter with more guilt than ceremony — 22 minutes that wreck you.
Rosa darling, it's nothing against you, but you see, the two of us don't work much. So we're going to find you a wonderful lady who will take care of you. It's going to go well, you'll see.
Acting
Nanou Garcia's hands do more than most monologues.
Direction
Lenoir's stillness lets dread colonize every frame.
Director
Blandine Lenoir
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lenoir shot this as her graduation film at La Fémis, proving French cinema schools still birth emotional terrorists.
This belongs to a wave of 2000s French shorts examining working-class motherhood without sentimentality — Claire Denis' influence haunts every static shot.
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