In Saint-Nazaire in 1967, a hotbed of workers' struggles, Clémence, 26, is married to a young worker, Gérard. Like many women of her generation, she does not work and takes care of her two children. But she longs for a different life while Gérard confuses the happiness of his family with the acquisition of household appliances. Trained by an old friend, Agnès, in family planning meetings, Clémence will meet a young philosophy teacher, Jérôme. For him, she will abandon her husband and her children, and try to live the utopia of a life of total freedom. Blinded by his pain, a stranger to his wife's questioning, Gérard will have to become aware of the upheavals that will overwhelm society a few months later. Life will never be the same again.
Acting
Spigarelli's restraint makes Clémence's explosion hit harder.
Production
Saint-Nazaire's industrial gloom becomes a character.
Director
Michel Andrieu
Laëtitia Spigarelli
Clémence Didier
Guillaume Verdier
Gérard Verdier
Julie-Marie Parmentier
Agnès Clouet
Dimitri Rataud
Jérôme Johannet
Léa Seydoux
Jackie
Sandrine Blancke
Corinne
Renan Carteaux
Paul
Rodolfo De Souza
Ramos
Laura del Sol
Esperanza
Robert Plagnol
Jean-Jacques
Marie Denarnaud
Josyane
Philippe Dormoy
Contremaître SNCT
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released forty years after May '68, it interrogates who actually got liberated—the activists or the women they left behind.
This was Léa Seydoux's third film role; she's on screen for roughly ninety seconds as the daughter who witnesses everything.
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