

122 minutes of women asking for abortions while bureaucrats say 'have you considered keeping it?' — French cinema at its most uncomfortably real.
A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women.
Direction
Claire Simon's documentary-trained eye — every frame feels illegally observed.
Acting
Baye and Brakni weaponize bureaucratic niceness until it breaks.
Writing
Dialogue so natural you'll check if it's scripted.

Director
Claire Simon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Simon spent months in actual family planning centers; many 'patients' are non-professionals giving unscripted performances of their own histories.
Released as France debated extending abortion limits, the film weaponizes institutional neutrality — refusing to tell you who to root for until it's too late.
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