French drama, the debut film from writer-director Eléonore Faucher. Teenager Claire (Lola Naymark) discovers she is pregnant and decides to keep it a secret. Abandoning her dead-end supermarket job, she is taken on as an apprentice by couturiere Madame Mélikian (Ariane Ascaride), who is grieving over the death of her own child. As the two women work together, they soon develop a supportive and fam
Cinematography
Close-ups of hands that say everything faces don't.
Acting
Ascaride's grief held in her shoulders, not her tears.
Costume
Every stitch visualizes what characters cannot speak.
Director
Éléonore Faucher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lola Naymark learned embroidery for months; her hands in close-ups are genuinely hers.
Faucher uses the French 'broderie' tradition to mirror female labor historically erased from 'high art.'
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