Part of the Linda Plaut Festival of the Arts supported by Spark Newton in cooperation with the City of Newton
Directed by Joachim Lafosse
94 min. | France, Luxembourg, Belgium | French with subtitles | 2025
On a whim, a single mother–who is determined to give her twin boys a spring vacation after her original plans collapse—trespasses at her former in-laws’ luxury villa on the Riviera, a place she once called home. Joined by the twins’ soccer coach, secretly her boyfriend, they cautiously savor six sun-drenched days. Directed by Joachim Lafosse, the film simmers with an ever-so-slight tension beneath its radiant setting.
May 21 Speaker: Haleigh Burgon, a PhD candidate in French and Francophone Studies at Boston University. Her dissertation investigates how French and Francophone women writers and creators use representations of motherhood and memory.. Her research focuses particularly on Francophone literature and film from North Africa and the Caribbean, with attention to gender, postcolonial identity, and narrative voice.
May 26 Speaker: Dr. Tiffany Bailey Rahman, Research Fellow in the Africana Studies Program at Northeastern University. Her research interests include Black girlhood studies, Black feminist studies, Francophone studies, contemporary film and literature, and popular culture.
