La Venue de l'Avenir
This delightful French crowd-pleaser, one of the highlights of last Autumn’s French Film Festival UK, is now released nationally.
A young countrywoman searches for her mother in Belle Époque Paris while four of her 21st-century descendants piece together her story from the artifacts in her soon-to-be demolished house in Normandy. A thoughtful, comic meditation on changing social mores over approximately 125 years, the epoque-shifting film re-examines some much-loved myths and images of French history, particularly from the heyday of Impressionism. Cédric Klapisch delivers France past and present with irresistible appeal to old-school Francophiles. “The best French film I saw at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival”. Roger Gibson. (Subtitles)
France/Belgium 2025 Cédric Klapisch 124m
