WHEN FALL IS COMING
After a tumultuous
life in Paris, Michelle (Hélène Vincent)
has retired to a quiet existence in Burgundy, tending her garden and
attending services at her parish. The voracious hostility of her adult daughter
Valérie (Ludivine Sagnier) remains
Michelle’s great puzzlement: how can a child for whom she sacrificed so much
treat her with such contempt and suspicion? When Valérie drops off her son for
a week with his grandmother, Michelle sees an opportunity to repair the
relationship, but a culinary accident soon undercuts whatever trust remains.
With the help of her best friend Marie-Claude (Josiane Balasko), whose son (Pierre
Lottin) has recently been released from prison, Michelle plots a path
towards restoring the family life so long denied her. With a deceptively placid
surface, master stylist François Ozon
cooks up a twisty and destabilizing thriller where family ties remain the most
mysterious ingredient of all. (France,
2024, 103 mins, French | Dir. François Ozon)


