May Cinema Club

Saturday, May 10 at 11:00am

Cinema Club Moderator Megan Feeney will be in conversation with Dr. Ioana Vartolomei Pribiag, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies in the University of Minnesota's French & Italian Department.

Cinema Club screenings are FREE for MSP Film Society Members. Not a Member? Join here. More info on Cinema Club here.

Members: Remember to sign-in to make your free reservation.

ABOUT THE FILM

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 twisty and destabilizing thriller where family ties remain the most mysterious ingredient of all.