Pierre has been happily married for fifteen years and a good father. Still in love with his wife, he enjoys his wife and family and is content. One evening, he meets Elsa at a party and are immediately attracted to each other. Fifteen days later, they happen to meet again and the mutual attraction turns into infatuation. But his love for his wife and Elsa's rule about not dating married men prevents them from taking the next step. Instead, they fantasize about each other, and soon the fantasies mingle with the reality.
Acting
Marceau and Cluzet's crackling almost-chemistry carries every scene
Direction
Azuelos blurs fantasy and reality with dreamy, disorienting ease
Writing
The 'what if' conversations feel painfully, specifically real
Director
Lisa Azuelos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sophie Marceau and Lisa Azuelos collaborated multiple times; Azuelos wrote this specifically imagining Marceau's particular melancholic magnetism.
The title references quantum physics' 'many worlds' theory—every choice creates branching realities, and Pierre lives in the tension between them.
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