A group of 4 girls decide to revise for their exams together, in the summer vacation. They move from Paris to the countryside, where Valerie's grandmother has a vacant house. The film is all about their inter-personal relationships, and how living together effects each of them. Then Valerie's male cousin arrives one day, and we see how they deal with the young man, and vice versa
Acting
Isabelle Carré's brittle vulnerability steals every scene she's in.
Direction
Christian Vincent lets conversations breathe like nobody's watching.
Director
Christian Vincent
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures a specific French phenomenon: the 'coloc' summer, where bourgeois students pretend to be bohemian.
Isabelle Carré and Elsa Zylberstein both play characters named Frédérique — a deliberate choice Vincent never explained.
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