17 minutes to wreck your entire life plan — bring tissues.
Alexandra, a French architect working on a significant project in Moscow, is an intelligent, driven and independent career woman. But when her lifes' desire turns to having a child, and with her biological clock ticking, she is suddenly faced with a serious choice: does she have the time to wait for love or must she take responsibility to have a child alone?
Acting
Cécile Pleuge's silent breakdown in the mirror — devastating.
Direction
Brodach makes Moscow feel coldly indifferent to Alexandra's French warmth.
Director
Elena Brodach
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during France's heated bioethics debates, the film weaponizes brevity — 17 minutes mirrors how abruptly fertility windows close.
Director Elena Brodach shot this during her own pregnancy, casting Pleuge after one café meeting where the actress described her own fertility panic.
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