François Ozon returns with Quand vient l'Automne, one of the French director 's finest films of recent years. A film noir with naturalistic overtones, Quand vient l'Automne is reminiscent of another film currently in cinemas, Alain Guiraudie's poisonous Miséricorde. Indeed, it's unusual for two films to make us want to go mushroom-picking at the same time!
Quand vient l'Automne is broadcast on Canal+ on April 22, 2025 at 9:10 pm.
Synopsis: Michelle, a doting grandmother, lives in peaceful retirement in a small village in Burgundy, not far from her best friend Marie-Claude. On All Saints' Day, her daughter Valérie comes to visit her and drop off her son Lucas for the week's vacation. But nothing goes according to plan.
In her English cottage-style home, Michelle (the stunning Hélène Vincent) is as much a grandmotherly cake-maker as she is a modern, flirtatious woman. She lives in a small village in Burgundy, not far from her best friend Marie-Claude(Josiane Balasko). For All Saints' Day, Valérie(Ludivine Sagnier), who has all the makings of an ungrateful daughter, visits her to drop off her son Lucas for a week's vacation.
But as is often the case with Ozon, nothing goes according to plan, and what should be a quiet, pleasant week takes an unexpected turn, revealing many buried secrets in the process. Meanwhile, Marie-Claude's son(Pierre Lottin) returns to live with his mother, after many years in the shadows.
With his trademark great skill, the French filmmaker explores the most complex family dynamics in an absolutely truculent - not to say jubilant- manner. For if Quand vient l'Automne had all the makings of a great film of suspicion (with the plot being bolstered, as time goes by, by secrecy), the film is as honest as it gets, for no other reason than to move the story forward as straightforwardly as possible, and that's absolutely brilliant.
Some acknowledge their involvement and wrongdoing, while others are quick to reveal their secrets. A most delightful articulation of relationships that leaves room for an immense sense of humanity. The truth is told as simply as mass. In the end, the detective story is only there to focus on what really matters: mutual protection within a chosen family. An absolutely lovable film, we loved it.
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