L’Attachement
This 2026 winner of Best Film at the César Awards explores the challenges of modern family structures, following a single father, a feminist bookshop owner and a child seeking a place to belong as they navigate love, desires and redefining what it means to be a family.
Sandra (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) owns a feminist bookstore and happily lives alone with her artworks and her books. Across the hall lives financier Alex (Pio Marmaï), his expectant partner Cecile (Mélissa Barbaud) and Cecile’s little boy Elliott (César Botti). When Sandra agrees to babysit Elliott during the birth of the new child, her kindliness evolves into unexpected obligations: surrogate mother, romantic interest, family adviser and spiritual witness. By revealing their aspirations, their fears, their choices, writer/director Carine Tardieu depicts different ways in which humans create families. (Subtitles)
France/Belgium 2024 Carine Tardieu 106m
