With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Apr 20236/10
"Sandra" (Léa Seydoux) is at a crossroads in her life. Her ageing, academic, father (the scene-dominating Pascal Greggory) has been diagnosed with a neuro-degenerative disease that is pretty much robbing him of his quality of life. He is an acclaimed philosopher who finds his increasing lack of ability to think and to remember exasperating. Meantime, she also reconnects with her old friend "Clément" (Melvil Poupaud). He delights in being called a cosmo-chemist (he studies meteoric dust using a rather impressive mass spectrometer). It's clear from the outset that these two have the hots for each other and, despite the fact that he is married with a young son, they embark of quite a lively affair. She is juggling her affection for him while struggling to find an adequate facility for her father; he is having a crisis of conscience as he falls more deeply in love but has his own family to consider. That's about the height of it. Even with the underlying - and rather depressing - analysis of the care provision for her elderly and increasingly failing father adding some gravitas to the film, the story itself is all a rather lacklustre drama centred around two people who are actually qui
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Cast
- Léa SeydouxSandra Kienzler
- Pascal GreggoryGeorg Kienzler
- Melvil PoupaudClément
- Nicole GarciaFrançoise
- Camille Leban MartinsLinn
- Sarah Le PicardElodie Kienzler
- Pierre MeunierMichel
- Fejria DelibaLeila
- Jacqueline Hansen-LøveJacqueline Kienzler
- Catherine VinatierSoeur de Georg
Crew
- Mia Hansen-LøveDirector
- Mia Hansen-LøveScreenplay
- Denis LenoirDirector of Photography
- Marion MonnierEditor
- Philippe MartinProducer
- David ThionProducer
- Gerhard MeixnerProducer
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