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Join Telegram ChannelA double story of emancipation of a mother and her son with disabilities. An intense melodrama carried by the duo Laure Calamy – Charles Peccia-Galletto.
Mona lives alone with her thirty-year-old son Joël, who is intellectually delayed, for whom she has put her personal life on hold. But then at his workplace, Joël fell in love with a colleague, Océane, also with a disability. A hidden but very real passion since Océane becomes pregnant, with all the upheavals that this implies in their lives and those of their loved ones.
On this starting point, Anne-Sophie Bailly will defy expectations and offer a story where the presence of disabled characters does not imply making a film about disability. What is told here, with chiselled writing of strong characters, is the story of a double story of emancipation. That of a son who has always been a babysitter and ready to become a father against all odds. And that, fundamentally much more difficult for her to live with, of a mother, worried about her son's capacity – without understanding that she is suffocating him – to take responsibility for himself but even more frightened by the leap into the void that this situation represents for her, while a man entered her life. Will she be able to reconnect with her feelings and physical desires while ignoring guilt?
This first feature expresses this questioning by embracing the inner torments of a heroine who tries not to let anything show. The resulting sobriety prevents any pathos while boosting its emotional power. A great first film where Laure Calamy impresses once again opposite the no less astonishing Charles Peccia-Galletto, pre-nominated for the César for revelation.
By Anne-Sophie Bailly. With Laure Calamy, Charles Peccia-Galletto, Julie Froger… Duration 1h34. Released December 25, 2024