After boyfriend Louis ODs, pregnant junkie Mousse (Isabelle Carré) retreats to the coast to recover. But refuge isn’t easy when her protruding belly is a magnet for unsavoury types.
François Ozon’s latest is a slight but sensitive study of a woman coming back to earth with a bump. Literally: Carré was six months preggers during the shoot.
The narrative’s flimsy, but Ozon’s intimate HD camerawork mainlines Carré’s palpable emotion, blurring hormonal instinct into acting craft for a rounded portrayal of Mousse’s conflicted impulses: irritable and increasingly awestruck.
