Babou seems to be able to shrug off anything. Real jobs, husbands, responsibilities, who needs them? But when she finds out that her own daughter is too ashamed of her to invite her to her wedding, she decides to make some changes.
Acting
Huppert's magnetic, infuriating, utterly watchable chaos.
Cinematography
Ostend's bleak beach beauty mirrors Babou's beautiful mess.
Writing
Never apologizes for its difficult, unlikable heroine.
Director
Marc Fitoussi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Real mother-daughter tension: Lolita Chammah is Isabelle Huppert's actual daughter. Their on-screen chemistry carries decades of authentic baggage.
Fitoussi intentionally set this in Ostend, Belgium's faded resort town, as a metaphor for Babou herself—once glamorous, now stubbornly, defiantly refusing to be obsolete.
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