Laissez-moi (2023)
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Jeanne Balibar, Thomas Sarbacher, Pierre-Antoine Dubey, Véronique Mermoud
A seamstress in a Swiss mountain village balances life with her disabled son and secret encounters with passing tourists.
The story
Claudine is a seamstress who works from home in a small village in the mid-mountains of Valais, Switzerland, where she lives with her son Baptiste, who has a physical disability. Each week she travels by train to a hotel to meet passing tourists for casual sexual encounters. She turns their descriptions of their hometowns into letters for her son, signing them with the name of his absent father. Her routine shifts when she meets Michael, a German engineer who returns to see her several times and offers to take her to Argentina, where he has a three-month work assignment.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Claudine (Jeanne Balibar), a seamstress who works from home in a small village in the mid-mountains of Valais, Switzerland, lives with her son Baptiste (Pierre-Antoine Dubey), who has a physical disability. Every week, she takes a train to a hotel to meet passing tourists for casual sexual encounters. She uses the descriptions her short-term lovers give her of their hometowns in letters she sends to her son, signing them with the name of his father, who left them. One day, she meets Michael (Thomas Sarbacher), a German engineer who sees her several more times and then offers to take her to Argentina, where he has a three-month assignment. She initially accepts, but later changes her mind.
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