Directed by:
Rachel LangScreenplay:
Rachel LangCinematography:
Fiona BraillonCast:
Claude Gensac, Swann Arlaud, Lazare Gousseau, Olivier Chantreau, Noémie Rosset, Zabou Breitman, Thomas Silberstein, Kate Moran, Mathieu Mortelmans (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
Ana drives the sports car with confidence. There's a famous actress on the backseat who she's driving to the film set – they're late and the producer is shouting at her. On a whim, Ana decides to quit her job and simply sets off in the rental car – into her own world. She drives to her grandmother's, to Strasbourg. The European border town is her home and the summer of 2015 pretty much belongs to her too. She wears the uniform of her generation – short jeans, tight tops, trainers. Over the course of the summer, the few visible insignia of her identity come together to form the personality of a young woman who is already an adult, but is intent on continuing the search – for who she'd like to be, for who she could be. Ana's encounters with the world function as snapshots of these possibilities, their complex plurality offering a contemporary alternative to the predestined fates of young women in the past. Her family, particularly her grandmother and her male relatives, play almost traditional roles, but for Ana genre-role models are strangely obsolete. As the star of the film, Ana is the only one bound to a present, a present on a permanent knife edge between comedy and melodrama. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Claude Gensac
France
Best movies:
The Wing and the Thigh (1976)
Oscar (1967)
The Exchange Student (1967)
Swann Arlaud
France
Best movies:
Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
The Swallows of Kabul (2019)
The Round Up (2010)
Olivier Chantreau
Best movies:
A Gang Story (2011)
2 automnes 3 hivers (2013)
Cassandre (2015) (series)
Zabou Breitman
France
Best movies:
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (2008)
Mr & Mme Adelman (2017)
All Three of Us (2015)
Thomas Silberstein
Best movies:
The Last Duel (2021)
Mon fils à moi (2006)
Cassandre (2015) (series)
Kate Moran
Best movies:
Sarah's Key (2010)
You and the Night (2013)
Goltzius and the Pelican Company (2012)
Sam Louwyck
Belgium
Best movies:
The Wild Boys (2017)
The Fifth Season (2012)
Cargo (2017)
Driss Ramdi
Best movies:
A Decent Man (2015)
The String (2009)
Mutants (2009)
Lise Werckmeister
Best movies:
Julie Lescaut (1992) (series)
Boulevard du Palais (1999) (series)
Yoann Blanc
Best movies:
Gilles' Wife (2004)
Last Winter (2011)
Chubby (2014)
Baptiste Sornin
Best movies:
The Kid with a Bike (2011)
Two Days, One Night (2014)
Tori and Lokita (2022)