Bord de mer

The portrait of a mother driven toward the void, based on Véronique Olmi’s poignant novel. It could be an anonymous hotel room or a beach drowned beneath a low, gray sky. There, a woman speaks and confides in us. She lives alone with her two children, Kévin and Stan. She is short of money. She wanted to fight to offer her children a different future. On a whim, she took them on vacation. One rainy night, they took the bus. Destination: the sea. It was the first time in their lives. She so wanted this getaway to be a celebration… Director Muriel Mayette-Holtz adapts Véronique Olmi’s first novel. Actress Élise Clary embodies, with moving humanity and rage, this mother devastated by life’s injustices, cornered and without help or recourse. The hotel room where she stands takes on the dimensions of a soulless, inevitable beach, swept by the lights of distant celebrations, before everything sinks irretrievably into the night. With Elise Clary.