Between his friends and the family business, Arnaud's summer looks set to be a peaceful one. Peaceful until he runs into Madeleine, as beautiful as she is brusque, a concrete block of tensed muscles and doomsday prophecies.
He expects nothing; she prepares for the worst. He takes things as they come, likes a good laugh. She fights, runs, swims, pushes herself to the limit. Given she hasn't asked him for anything, just how far will he go along with her? It's a love story. Or a story of survival. Or both.
A sensitive, slight French romance that marks a promising debut from French filmmaker Cailley.
It's undeniably on the slight side but this is an endearingly scrappy film with a fighter's spunk and a lover's heart that doesn't surrender to sentimentality.
Thomas Cailley’s debut, about a college dropout and a young carpenter in northern France, takes its own sweet time about showing its hand, but proves the director is one to watch.
Offbeat comedy-drama tells a familiar story in an original way.
Kévin Azaïs and Adèle Haenel bring wit and warmth to this tale of young love and survivalism.
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow from Friday June 19, 2015, until Thursday June 25, 2015. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee from Friday June 26, 2015, until Thursday July 2, 2015. More info: www.dca.org.uk
Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Friday July 3, 2015, until Thursday July 9, 2015. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com
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