La fin de l'été (2019)
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Bernard Le Coq, Christiane Millet, Talid Ariss, Maël Rouin Berrandou, Alexia Chardard, Corentin Jamet
A Parisian teenager’s summer visit to his grandparents takes an unexpected turn as he notices his grandmother’s failing memory and balance.
The story
Fifteen-year-old Ali spends a countryside holiday with his eleven-year-old brother, Selim, at their grandparents’ home. Hoping for a first romantic or sexual experience during the break from Paris, Ali and Selim begin making friends. Meanwhile, time with their grandparents reveals changes in their grandmother: she has lapses in memory and loses her balance. Their grandfather, André, tries to conceal that she is ill, but Ali gradually realizes something is wrong.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Fifteen-year-old Ali is going to spend the holidays with his little brother, eleven-year-old Selim, at their grandparents’ home in the countryside. For this break away from Paris, he hopes to have his “first time.” André and Françoise, for their part, are happy to welcome their grandchildren. As the two boys make friends, time spent with their grandparents makes Ali realize that his grandmother is no longer quite the same: she has memory lapses and loses her balance. Despite André’s efforts to hide his wife’s illness, Ali discovers that she has Alzheimer’s disease.
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