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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
A wintry family gathering becomes a chamber piece of old grievances, brittle affection, and shifting alliances—matching Téchiné’s alertness to how history unsettows every domestic conversation.
02
Why this pick
Its impending loss of a family home gives small exchanges and inherited objects a quietly devastating weight, with the same unsentimental attention to class, memory, and adult children.
03
Why this pick
A formally lively but emotionally raw drama about estranged relatives and unresolved mourning, driven by volatile conversations rather than easy reconciliation.
04
Why this pick
This is sharper and more comic, but its single fraught family meal shares My Favorite Season’s pleasure in exposing years of resentment through ordinary social rituals.
05
Why this pick
Its enclosed household turns familial closeness into anxiety and friction, using a precise physical space to intensify the strain between love, dependency, and escape.
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01 / THE STORY
Berthe, an elderly widow, is forced by her declining health to close the French farmhouse where she has spent much of her life. She moves in with her daughter Émilie and son in law Bruno who share a legal practice and have two grown up children: Anne, a law university student, and Lucien, who was adopted. In spite of Émilie’s efforts, Berthe is not happy in her daughter’s bourgeois home in Blagnac. She sits by the swimming pool in the middle of the night talking to herself and finds the house pretentious. Worried about her mother's physical and mental health, Émilie pays a visit to her unmarried younger brother, Antoine, a neurosurgeon. They have not seen each other for three years, since they quarreled at their father’s funeral. Émilie informs Antoine of their mother's condition and invites him to a Christmas dinner with the entire family.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Berthe
Dr Antoine Dupuy
Emilie
Bruno
Anne
Mehdi
la directrice
l'homme de l'hôpital
