Luc Chessel

In a delicate, even generous manner, Valérie Massadian’s new film begins as a story of two young lovers’ life on the fringes before shifting towards one of recent cinema’s finest depictions of motherhood. Milla and Leo live clandestinely, their meager furnishings and sustenance countered by a love for which there is neither a logic nor substitute. But such an existence will only last until forces of nature take hold. Where is there to go in its wake? Milla considers every dimension of love, loyalty, and grief through a poetic, startling vision that recalls the likes of Barbara Loden and Chantal Akerman while remaining without precedent.

When his husband Frank is sent on a mission to Djibouti, Roger (Andy Gillet, star of Eric Rohmer’s The Romance of Astrea and Celadon) remains behind with his adopted daughter, the temperamental Roxy, at Fort Buchanan, an army base in the middle of the woods.

Victor and Rainer are typical young French hipsters on their way to Paris. Checking into a club, Victor hits on the girls, while Rainer rebuffs the advances of a male admirer. Testosterone surges, bravado leads to a face-off...just another night on the town. Until it's not.