Un beau dimanche (2013)
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Louise Bourgoin, Pierre Rochefort, Dominique Sanda, Déborah François
A solitary substitute teacher is drawn into the struggles of a pupil’s mother and the unresolved distance from his own family.
The story
Baptiste Cambière is a young substitute teacher who prefers a solitary, unattached life. While caring for Mathias, one of his pupils, on a Friday evening during Pentecost weekend, he meets Mathias’s mother, Sandra. A seasonal worker on the Mediterranean coast, she struggles to care for her son as she wishes and is considering running away, burdened by debts and abandoned plans. Baptiste decides to break a long silence with his wealthy family in order to help her. Their meeting brings together Sandra’s precarious circumstances and Baptiste’s own complicated family history.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Baptiste Cambière (Pierre Rochefort) is a young substitute teacher who refuses to form attachments in favor of a freer but solitary life. It is while looking after Mathias, one of his pupils, on a Friday evening during Pentecost weekend, that he meets the boy’s mother, Sandra (Louise Bourgoin). A seasonal worker on the Mediterranean coast, she is unable to care for her son as she would like. Haunted by a past burdened with abandoned plans and debts, she is contemplating running away. Baptiste then decides to break the silence that has lasted far too long between him and his wealthy family so that he can help her. He, too, is hiding a dark secret: his family tried to have him committed because he refused to pursue the studies his parents wanted for him.
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