When Fall is Coming

When Fall is Coming

After a tumultuous life in Paris, Michelle (Helene 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, Valerie (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 that has been so long denied her. With a deceptively placid surface, master stylist Francois Ozon cooks up a twisty and destabilizing thriller where family ties remain the most mysterious ingredient of all.