Metrograph

15994 better days 99+ A Metrograph Programming Base Data Automations Interfaces Forms Capsule Text Assayas, who provides a ruminative voice-over to his pandemic era film à clef, re-teams with a hilariously neurotic and navel-gazing Vincent Macaigne, here playing his director’s on-screen avatar, chain-smoking middle-aged filmmaker Paul, who we see in the midst of negotiating the terms of his separation with his younger ex-partner, Flavia (Maud Wyler), and details concerning their daughter’s upbringing via Zoom while self-isolating (and self-flagellating) in his rundown family home in the French countryside in the company of raffish music journalist brother Micha Lescot and girlfriends Nina D’Urso and Nora Hamzawi. A film, funny and moving in turn, about the blistering friction of cabin fever and the ghosts that linger around the scenes of childhood memories.

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Distributor: Music Box Films