Philippe Garrel : 2017
Lover for a Day
The story of a father, his 23-year-old daughter, who goes back home one day because she has just been dumped, and his new girlfriend, who is also 23 and lives with him. Gilles, a professor of philosophy has been having a secret affair for the last three months with Ariane, one of his students – a relationship that he, resisted in the beginning. But he is also a father who sees his daughter Jeanne barge home one evening after a breakup, in tears and with her suitcase. Placing herself in the living room and at the heart of the life of the two lovers, Jeanne unloads her deep suffering. Consolatory and confident at first, Ariane slowly begins to feel pangs of jealously about Gilles's paternal love for his daughter and also shares loaded secrets with Jeanne who deploys schemes, conscious and unconscious, to remain the centre of attention. Whilst both might appear to be close and share the bond of an age dominated by desire, the two young women are, in reality, the protagonists of an underground war because the enemy remains the enemy even when you know that you are wrongly occupying their territory. Philippe Garrel's feature was winner of the Prix SACD when it premiered at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at Festival de Cannes 2017.
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