When Fall is Coming
A darkly funny French drama worth savoring.
-- Leslie Felperin, Hollywood Reporter
When Fall is Coming
After a tumultuous life in Paris, Michelle (Hélène Vincent) has retired to a quiet existence in Burgundy, tending her garden and attending services at her parish. The voracious hostility of her adult daughter, Valérie (Ludivine Sagnier), remains Michelle’s great puzzlement: how can a child for whom she sacrificed so much treat her with such contempt and suspicion? When Valérie drops off her son for a week with his grandmother, Michelle sees an opportunity to repair the relationship, but a culinary accident soon undercuts whatever trust remains. With the help of her best friend Marie-Claude (Josiane Balasko), whose son (Pierre Lottin) has recently been released from prison, Michelle plots a path towards restoring the family life so long denied her. With a deceptively placid surface, master stylist François Ozon cooks up a twisting and destabilizing thriller where family ties remain the most mysterious ingredient of all.
“An elegant, slippery game of tonal bait-and-switch ... Slides from ambling character study to cool-blooded thriller in the spirit of Simenon ... Hélène Vincent has rarely had a film built quite so devotedly around her presence.” - Guy Lodge, Variety
“With a terrific lead from screen and stage veteran Hélène Vincent, this is Ozon in his fine-wine register … This film’s dramatizing of late-life content, sorrow and solitude is as subversive in its way as anything Ozon has done, and a tartly intelligent rejoinder to the clichés of screen ageism.” - Jonathan Romney, Screen
“A Darkly Funny French Drama Worth Savoring ... A rock-solid demonstration of [Ozon's] control over storytelling, technique and ability to get the best from actors.” - Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter
“An elegant, slippery game of tonal bait-and-switch ... Slides from ambling character study to cool-blooded thriller in the spirit of Simenon ... Hélène Vincent has rarely had a film built quite so devotedly around her presence.” - Guy Lodge, Variety
“With a terrific lead from screen and stage veteran Hélène Vincent, this is Ozon in his fine-wine register … This film’s dramatizing of late-life content, sorrow and solitude is as subversive in its way as anything Ozon has done, and a tartly intelligent rejoinder to the clichés of screen ageism.” - Jonathan Romney, Screen
“A Darkly Funny French Drama Worth Savoring ... A rock-solid demonstration of [Ozon's] control over storytelling, technique and ability to get the best from actors.” - Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter
Genre
French Cinema,
Drama,
Black Comedy,
Crime
Runtime
103
Language
French
Director
François Ozon
Writer(s)
François Ozon,
Philippe Piazzo
Cast
Hélène Vincent,
Josiane Balasko,
Ludivine Sagnier,
Pierre Lottin,
Garlan Erlos
Awards:
Nominee, Best Actress, Cesar Awards
Winner, Jury Prize ~ Best Screenplay, San Sebastián International Film Festival
Nominee, Golden Seashell ~ Best Film, San Sebastián International Film Festival
MOREPlayed at
Royal 4.07.25 - 4.07.25
Town Center 5 4.11.25 - 4.17.25
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