François Ozon is back with a skillfully triangulated story about a woman who learns that the husband of her deceased best friend is harbouring a most unusual secret. Best friends Claire (Anaïs Demoustier) and Laura (Isild Le Besco) are utterly inseperable.
In a Paris airport zone, two strangers try to make sense out of their lives: an american engineer under great professional and emotional pressure who decides to radically change the course of his existence, and a young hotel chambermaid who goes through a life-altering supernatural experience. "It would be spoiling the fun to give away any more.
Brigitte and Xavier farm cattle in Normandy. Brigitte's a dreamer, with her head in the clouds, whereas Xavier's feet are firmly on the ground and his main focus is his work. Now that their children have left home, the couple's routine life increasingly weighs Brigitte down.
The year is 1926. In the Landes region, free-spirited Thérèse Larroque, the daughter of a wealthy pinery owner and radical-socialist politician, marries Bernard Desqueyroux, another pinery owner. Although she does it half-heartedly, she thinks that marriage may help her to "sort out all the ideas in her mind". But her disappointment is great.
The film stars Academy Award- winner Juliette Binoche as Anne, a well-off Parisian journalist investigating the lives of two student prostitutes (Joanna Kulig and Anaïs Demoustier) for a magazine article.
