Mia Hansen-Løve : 2007
All is Forgiven
Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside. He plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette's parents, loiters in the park with drug dealers. Very much in love, Annette is confident that he will get a hold of himself as soon as they return to Paris. But back in France, Victor relapses into his bad habits. After a violent dispute, he moves in with Gisèle, the drug user he has fallen in love with, but fails to commit himself to their relationship too. Following Gisèle's death from an overdose, Victor suffers a mental and physical breakdown and ends up in a sanatorium. Annette leaves him and disappears with Pamela. Eleven years pass. Pamela is seventeen and lives in Paris with her mother who has remarried. One day, she learns that her father lives in the same city and decides to see him again. At first all goes well, with sincere feelings on both sides. For Victor the meeting is hugely important but also a terrible reminder of all he might have done and might have been. Mia Hansen-Løve's remarkable debut feature premiered at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs 2007 at Cannes.
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