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Love Letters
Emerging Narrative Feature Competition
Thu
28
Thu 28 Aug 6:30 PM
Selling Fast
Event Cinemas, George St
Wheelchair
Subtitled
General Admission
Unclassified 18+
96 Mins August
Inspired by writer-director Alice Douard’s own experience with France’s adoption bureaucracy, this touching debut highlights the constant blurring of the personal and political in LGBTIQ+ life.
Paris, 2014. Céline (Ella Rumpf, Raw) and wife Nadia (Monia Chokri, Heartbeats) are expecting their first child, but it’s Nadia who’s carrying the baby. By law, Céline has to gather testimonies from friends and family to affirm her readiness to be a parent – including her famous concert pianist mother (Noémie Lvovsky; Summertime, MGFF16). Forced to reconnect with the woman who was absent most of her childhood, Céline must confront her fear of following in her mother’s footsteps in this sharp and compassionate drama.
Winner of the César Award for her short film Expecting (QSFF24), Douard uses Love Letters to expand its narrative focus beyond a night of labour to explore the entire pregnancy. Teaming up with acclaimed cinematographer Jacques Girault (Sauvage, MGFF19) to create its striking and emotionally resonant visuals, the film captures the inner lives of its characters with aesthetic coherence and profound sensitivity.
Content advisory: this film contains depictions of homophobia.
Paris, 2014. Céline (Ella Rumpf, Raw) and wife Nadia (Monia Chokri, Heartbeats) are expecting their first child, but it’s Nadia who’s carrying the baby. By law, Céline has to gather testimonies from friends and family to affirm her readiness to be a parent – including her famous concert pianist mother (Noémie Lvovsky; Summertime, MGFF16). Forced to reconnect with the woman who was absent most of her childhood, Céline must confront her fear of following in her mother’s footsteps in this sharp and compassionate drama.
Winner of the César Award for her short film Expecting (QSFF24), Douard uses Love Letters to expand its narrative focus beyond a night of labour to explore the entire pregnancy. Teaming up with acclaimed cinematographer Jacques Girault (Sauvage, MGFF19) to create its striking and emotionally resonant visuals, the film captures the inner lives of its characters with aesthetic coherence and profound sensitivity.
Content advisory: this film contains depictions of homophobia.