8/10
Winning the Best Director Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival earlier this year, Nathan Ambrosioni’s Out of Love arrives at this year’s French Film Festival as a touching, quietly piercing gem.
The premise seems simple at first glance. After a long drive on the motorway, Suzanne (Juliette Armanet), a single mother of two, leaves her children Gaspard (Manoã Varvat) and Margaux (Nina Birman) in the care of her estranged sister Jeanne (Camille Cottin). Jeanne works as an insurance assessor and has separated from her partner Nicole (Monia Chokri) after disagreement about whether to have children. Suzanne does not return. There is no call, no message, no explanation, only a letter whose contents are never revealed. Jeanne and the children must learn how to live inside this sudden absence.
Read on paper, Out of Love may not sound like the most daring offering in a festival...
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