Synopsis
“I spend the holidays at my mother’s. The atmosphere is tense: not only does she find it hard to accept that I’m not the girly daughter she dreamt of having, but she is also in the middle of divorcing my stepfather. The stay promises to be eventful.”
A word from Tënk
It's often when works are closest to us that they are the hardest to talk about. Many of us might say this about Lucie Demange's film, as it brings us back to our own family memories, painful and even agonizing, but where love always manages to find a place to nestle and radiate. We cry with Lucie when her aunt tells her : "All we want is for you to be happy." We share her persistent cheerfulness as she helps her mother get rid of that damned bed frame that belongs to Christophe, aka Chouchou, to prove that yes, she can live alone without this man. And we tenderly hope that her mother recognizes her as she is today, in her beauty that is uniquely her own, and that she proclaims with a gentleness that does not diminish her fervor in this debut film that touches the heart.
Lysa Heurtier Manzanares
Filmmaker
