Mother and Son

Set in the late 1980s, this subtly crafted drama unfolds with delicacy and through embroidered-like imagery, to tell the story of Rose, a woman who moves from Ivory to the Parisian suburbs with her two young sons. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France, Leonor Serraille’s follow-up to her Camera d’Or-winner Jeune Femme (Cannes 2017) is the moving chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family. A poetic elegy on coming-of-age as an unearthly process, is at the same time a sensitive and complex inspection of the imaginary boundary between childhood and adulthood, innocence and experience – led by a superb female performance and vibrating with emotion and an invincible sense of freedom.