Summer 79, holidays, Ocean. Jean, about 10 years old, realizes that his mother and father don't love each other anymore. Suddenly, the family is confronted with death. Jean discovers the ambivalence of life, its violence, human weakness, something like the end of childhood...
Direction
Laborie captures 1979 France like a fever dream you lived.
Acting
Adam Lenglen's stare contains multitudes no child should hold.
Director
Emmanuel Laborie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Laborie based the film on his own childhood summers in Landes, shooting on location with his actual family home.
The 1979 setting deliberately evokes the 'années de plomb' aftermath—French childhood innocence curdling alongside the national mood.
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