Quand Vient L'automne (When Fall is Coming)
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 Valerie drops off her son for a week with his grandmother, 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.
Director: François Ozon
Distributor: Music Box Films
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Languages: French
Run time: 1h 42 min
Countries: France
Awards: César 2025 (Best Actress: Hélène Vincent); Lumière 2025 (Best Actress: Hélène Vincent; Best Director: François Ozon; Best Male Newcomer: Pierre Lottin; Best Screenplay).
This Film Festival is generously funded by a grant from the Albertine Cinémathèque, which
is part of the French for All initiative by Villa Albertine (the French Institute for Culture and
Education, a division of the French Embassy in the US) and Albertine Foundation and is
made possible by the support of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée
(CNC).
COMMUNITY SPONSORS:
Art Theater of Long Beach
Alliance Française of Newport Beach
