Alice learns of her mother's accidental death while travelling in Canada. The body has been repatriated to France at the request of her husband, Alice's father. But he has supposedly been dead for 22 years. Is it really her father? Why would her mother have lied to her?
Acting
Laura Smet's contained unraveling—grief and suspicion held in clenched jaws.
Direction
Despaux's cold, clinical France where even sunlight feels interrogated.
Director
Julien Despaux
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Laura Smet is French rock royalty—daughter of Johnny Hallyday and Nathalie Baye—bringing meta-layer of famous family mythology to Alice's search.
The film belongs to a wave of 2010s French TV movies obsessed with bourgeois family rot, where beautiful interiors conceal generations of calculated silence.
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