"Just in time for the migration of children from their summer stations in front of phones, games consoles and laptops back to full-time education comes this Swiss-set tale of a mother on the edge. An outstanding Ophelia Kolb (arguably best known to anglophone audiences for playing the accountant Colette in Call My Agent!) stars here as Jule, a single woman trying to hold it together for her brood of three."
"That said, it's often a challenge to sympathise with stroppy, self-deluded Jule, who gets into a fight with a housing services representative who's only trying to help her particularly after he dares to say that Loic's Asperger syndrome is basically the same thing as autism, a definition Jule refuses to accept. At one point, she breaks into a house she wants to rent to show the kids where they're supposedly going to live next, when realistically that just isn't going to happen."
Ophelia Kolb plays Jule, a single mother attempting to hold her family together amid financial strain and personal instability. Her eldest, Claire, is entering puberty and perceives Jule's evasions about an ankle monitor, while younger sons Loic and Sami accept Jule's long absences with anxiety. Director Jasmin Gordon and co-writer Julien Bouissoux adopt a gritty, morally ambiguous realism aligned with social-realist traditions. Jule resists labels around Loic's Asperger diagnosis, confronts housing services, and even breaks into a prospective home. Kolb conveys deep affection mixed with selfishness, and bleak poverty is punctuated by occasional humour.
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