Critics Week · 46th Edition
That Summer in Paris
LE RENDEZ-VOUS DE L'ÉTÉ
Director
Valentine Cadic
Country
France
Runtime
1 h 15 min
Language
French
Premiere
MENA premiere (Middle East and North Africa)
Synopsis
Paris, August 2024, and the Olympic Games are in full swing. Thirty-year-old Blandine arrives in Paris to watch the swimming competitions, reunite with a half-sister she has not seen in ten years and meet her young niece for the first time. Blandine has come from Normandy, where she has grown accustomed to peace and solitude. In Paris, she finds herself immersed in the hustle and bustle of a city where different rules seem to apply. As the days go by, she meets new people, gets lost, hesitates, picks up old threads, establishes new ones and, eventually, finds her way back to herself. Blandine drafts a new map for her spirit and soul as she navigates her way through the heart of a city completely dominated by this extraordinary event.
Cast
Laure Cochener, Blandine Madec, India Hair
Screenplay
Mariette Désert
Producers
Arnaud Bruttin, Antoine Jouve, Masa Sawada
About the Director
She is a director and actress, and a founding member of Les Filmeuses, created in 2020 to support women in film. That same year, she directed her first short Omaha Beach, followed by Les Grandes Vacances (2022), selected for the César Short Fictions. Her debut documentary La Saisonnière (2023) preceded her first feature, That Summer in Paris.
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