French Film Festival | Screening of “When Fall is Coming” (2024) by François Ozon

Michelle, a retiree in Burgundy, expects her grandson Lucas but a mistake ruins her plans.

As part of the fourth edition of the Princeton French Film Festival, you are invited to the screening of When Fall is Coming (2024) (French: Quand vient l’automne) by François Ozon.

🏆 Winner of Best International Film prize at the Munich Film Festival.

Logistics: In French with English subtitles. Open to everyone upon registration.

Synopsis: 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 grand mother, 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.

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