She worked all summer in a small restaurant on a Normandy beach. It's the end of the season, season of work, season of love ; he dumped her, in any case it looks like it. She has good reasons for talking to herself, all the more so since there's hardly anyone else around.
Acting
Sylvie Testud's magnificent one-woman spiral.
Cinematography
Champetier's intimate 16mm beach textures.
Direction
Caroline Champetier's unsentimental empathy.
Director
Caroline Champetier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Champetier shot this between cinematography gigs for Leos Carax and Arnaud Desplechin, smuggling her own directorial voice into a 16mm weekend.
The 'fin de saison' trope—end-of-summer coastal melancholy—is practically its own French genre, from Rohmer to Guédiguian.
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