"One discovers something terrible about her husband and immediately goes into a state of negotiated denial, the other loves her demanding job as a police officer, and is all the more dependent on the live-in cleaner/care worker who looks after her difficult elderly father."
"Lea Seydoux plays the first, Lucy Weiss, a French musician who has built up an enthusiastic, though niche following for her experimental pop-classical hybrid performances. Her mother, played in cameo by Catherine Deneuve, was a more conventionally successful concert pianist. Lucy has a comfortable home in Munich with her German TV director husband, Philip (Laurence Rupp), and their lively nine-year-old son, Johnny (Malo Blanchet)."
"Philip has had a breakdown, collapsing sobbing in Lucy's arms, apparently due to overwork and drug problems. She agrees to move to the countryside to soothe his emotional pain, and for a while things look better. Philip is evidently devoted to Johnny, playfully filming him and Lucy for some little personal project, and manfully building his son a trampoline in the garden."
"But then Elsa, played by Jella Haase, a detective with the Munich police, shows up at their front door, accompanied by an intimidating array of about half a dozen uniformed officers with a search warrant, demanding to take away all Philip's computers, tablets and smartphones. Stunned, Lucy asks Elsa and Philip what this is all about, and Philip, though clearly in no doubt, is unable to answer."
A Franco-German drama follows two women bound by care and loyalty to the men around them. One woman discovers something terrible about her husband and responds with negotiated denial while trying to maintain stability for her family. Her husband’s breakdown leads to a move to the countryside, where temporary improvements appear through devotion to their child and small domestic gestures. A police detective arrives with a search warrant and officers to seize the husband’s digital devices, leaving the family stunned and unable to explain the situation. The other woman, a police officer, depends heavily on a live-in cleaner who cares for her difficult elderly father, creating further tension between professional duty and personal dependence.
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