Sparing us the meet-cute, Other People’s Children kicks off with Rachel (Efira) already texting with Ali ( Roschdy Zem), a car designer she knows from a guitar class they’re both taking. Such thematic interests are something Zlotowski has in common with several other French female filmmakers - Mia Hansen-Løve, Audrey Diwan and Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet among them - currently dusting off their national cinema, tackling well-worn genres with new vitality and tweaking tropes and traditions.
Like An Easy Girl, Other People’s Children considers, and challenges, the categories women often find themselves shoved into, the pressures they face to make certain choices or accommodate certain expectations.
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While undoubtedly her most mainstream effort yet - the movie doesn’t aspire to the moody atmospherics of Dear Prudence and Grand Central and lacks An Easy Girl’s undercurrent of subversiveness (as for Planetarium, the less said the better) - it’s never assembly-line generic: Zlotowski is coloring within the lines here, but with generous strokes of nuance and feeling. Kramer and An Unmarried Woman are the clearest influences - films with which Other People’s Children shares its appealing blend of accessibility and sophistication, as well as its sense of confident craftsmanship. Venue: Venice Film Festival (Competition)Ĭast: Virginie Efira, Roschy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni, Callie Ferreira Goncalves, Yamée Couture, Henri-Noël Tabary, Victor Lefebvre, Michel Zlotowskiĭespite its sheen of quintessential Frenchness, Zlotowski’s touchstones here are American: Kramer vs.
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