Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives and her past comes out of these boxes. Her parents surely, but also her children and their fathers, the living and the dead. In this breakneck period of her life, time is running faster and faster and Anna takes a run-up to face the past and try to go towards the future. And, maybe, to manage to still believe in love?
Direction
Birkin directs her own mother-daughter relationship with Chaplin.
Acting
Three generations of real mother-daughter dynamics on screen.
Writing
Non-linear memory structure that mirrors unpacking actual boxes.
Director
Jane Birkin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Birkin originally wrote this as a stage play, then rebuilt her actual house on a soundstage to film it. The boxes were largely her real possessions.
This is essentially the third film in an unofficial trilogy about Birkin's life, following 'Kung-Fu Master' and 'Jane B. by Agnès V.'—she's been playing variations of herself for decades.
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