Myriam Boyer

You can almost smell the hairspray in Akerman’s exuberant but subversive musical about the many romantic entanglements of salon workers in a shopping mall basement. Its natty 1980s style, witty song lyrics, rapturous dance sequences, not to mention a gloriously bitchy male-suited quartet, deliver all the joys of the genre.

A poetic Quebecois seeks his roots in France, where he becomes involved with two troubled women.

After starting therapy, Chloé falls in love with her psychoanalyst Paul. When they move in together, everything seems perfect until some discoveries lead her to suspect that he may be living a double life. As she begins investigating, she dives into a dark world of smoke, mirrors, and doppelgangers.