Jean-Marc Vallée : 2011
Paris in the 1960s and present-day Montréal. A love story following the destinies of Jacqueline, a young Parisian mother of an only child, and Antoine, a Montréal DJ and the women in his life. Jacqueline is an impoverished single mother of little Laurent, born with Down's syndrome. Her life, obsessively devoted to her son, is a routine built around giving him the most love and opportunities she can provide. One day in school Laurent meets Véronique, a girl also with Down's syndrome and soon the two are inseparable, triggering in Jacqueline an unexpected jealousy. Antoine lives a seemingly idyllic life with his girlfriend Rose and two daughters. But behind his glossy, jet-setting exterior he is in deep turmoil, obsessed with the guilt he feels for the breakdown of his previous marriage to Carole, his first love. Weaving between its two parallel stories, in past and present, the film is about love, obsession and betrayal, the constant uncertainty of whether we are doing the right thing for the people we love, and also about knowing when to let go. It's not so much about the destination, as about the journey.
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