Women in Trouble: Love and Desire in Francophone Cinema
(NR) France – 1 hr 43 min – with subtitles
2022 · d. Léa Mysius
Starring Adèle Exarchopoulos, Swala Emati, Sally Dramé
A strange, solitary 8-year-old with a supernaturally strong sense of smell embarks on a journey of discovery when her estranged aunt’s return from prison unearths old family secrets. Palme d’Or-winner Adèle Exarchopoulos stars in this witchy, magical-realist fable.
This screening is part of the Women in Trouble French and Francophone Film Festival, presented with Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College and supported by the Albertine Cinematheque, a program of Albertine Foundation & Villa Albertine.
