ciné-marges-club #72 Love Me Tender

At the end of summer, Clémence tells her ex-husband that she is having romantic relationships with women. Her life is turned upside down when he takes away custody of their son. Clémence will have to fight to remain a mother, a woman, and free.

Taking some liberties with Constance Debré's novel (Ed.2020), which she expands upon, Anna Cazenave manages to strike the right balance in the perilous undertaking of refinement and radicalism. Highly poetic, thanks in particular to Vicky Krieps' introspective voice-over, the beauty of the film lies in its questioning of motherhood as a social norm and identity as an imposed construct. The film strikes a chord as both a dry and moving manifesto of emancipation and a cry of loneliness that haunts us long after we have seen it."