Along Came Love
From one year to the next, the Cinémathèque québécoise takes the pulse of recent and current French cinema, in partnership with the Institut français, in order to follow the evolution of an increasingly diversified French production.
In 1947, on a beach in Normandy, Madeleine, a waitress and young mother, meets François, a wealthy and cultivated student. They hit it off immediately, as though it were fate. But as their destinies intertwine, it’s obvious what Madeline wants to leave behind, while the world that François is running from is only slowly revealed.
Katell Quillévéré
Katell Quillévéré is a French filmmaker, screenwriter, and costume designer. The daughter of an IT worker and a science teacher, she was born and brought up in the Ivory Coast until the age of five. She comes from a Breton family from Finistère. Her family later returned to Paris, and after studying at the Lycée Fénelon, she chose to pursue a career in film. Alongside Sébastien Bailly she co-founded the Festival du cinéma at Brive, dedicated to medium-length films. She herself made a series of short films, starting with À bras le corps (2005), which was selected for the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes and nominated for a César. Her first feature film, Love like Poison (2010), tells the story of a teenage girl torn between family loyalty, religious beliefs, and the transition into womanhood. It won the Prix Jean Vigo. Her second feature, Suzanne, follows a young woman whose seemingly ordinary life is upended by a romance with a troubled man, leading her into a life on the wrong side of the tracks. The film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival and received positive reviews.
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