An executive and a dowdy working-class woman, both unemployed, married and parents meet at a supermarket. They become friends but find it hard to accept that they may be in love with each other.
Acting
Bruni Tedeschi's fragile restraint breaks your heart.
Direction
Vernoux lets silences do the screaming.
Cinematography
Supermarkets have never looked this poetically sad.
Director
Marion Vernoux
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vernoux adapted this from her own novel, written during a period of personal unemployment.
Part of a wave of 1990s French cinema exploring working-class characters with unprecedented empathy—Bruni Tedeschi's casting bridged art-house and mainstream appeal.
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