Just when Lola, 18 years old and transgender, learns that she can finally have surgery, her mother, who is her only financial support, passes away. Abiding by her mother’s last wishes, Lola and her father, who are permanently in conflict and have not seen each other for two years, undertake a journey all the way to the Belgian coast. They realize the outcome of the journey may not be the one they were both expecting...
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Contemporary, earnest, classical in form and grave.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Apr 20267/10
“Lola”, or “Lionel” as her dad would have it, has returned home uninvited for the wake of her late mother. Bluntly, “Philippe” (Benoît Magimel) wants nothing to do with his offspring and so sends her packing. Despondent, she (Mya Boolaers) waits until he has gone out and then breaks in to take one last look around her home and also, more incidentally, acquires the urn with her mum’s ashes in it. Of course it doesn’t take long for him to realise where they are but after a tussle he agrees that she can accompany him to the familial seaside home where they can spread the ashes over the water. What now ensues sees us take a road trip with a difference with both starting out despising the other, but then beginning a realisation that neither of their entrenched positions are going to help one or the other. No, this isn’t a predicable effort that all ends in cuddles and champagne as both of these actors and some pithy writing invite us to consider just what our priorities might be in the face of grief, when the relationship is already well cemented into quite a toxic bedrock of misunderstanding and loathing. The fact that “Lola” is about to undergo her transitional surgery adds an extra l
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Cast
- Mya BollaersLola
- Benoît MagimelPhilippe
- Els DeceukelierLa patronne
- Sami OutalbaliSamir
- Jeremie ZagbaAntoine
- Anemone ValckeLa danseuse
- Adriana Da FonsecaLa secrétaire médicale
- Delphine BibetLa chirurgienne
- Felix VannoorenbergheMaxime
- Denis MpungaLe prêtre
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- Laurent MicheliDirector
- Laurent MicheliWriter
- Olivier BoonjingDirector of Photography
- Raf KeunenOriginal Music Composer
- Julie NaasEditor
- Benoît RolandProducer
- Sébastien HaguenauerProducer
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