The lives of three people faced with an uncertain future. Marguerite, 17, is uncomfortable with her family enviroment and turns to God. Claire, who desperately wants a child, encounters again a former lover. Eva asks the unemployed Jacques, who has been left by his wife and his daughter, to find a missing friend.
Acting
Huppert's restrained desperation is masterclass minimalism
Direction
Ferreira Barbosa weaves three lives with delicate patience
Director
Laurence Ferreira Barbosa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lolita Chammah is Isabelle Huppert's actual daughter, making their mother-daughter tension scenes uncomfortably authentic.
This 2000 release captures a specific late-millennium French cinema obsession with bourgeois spiritual emptiness — think Rohmer with more unemployment.
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