Under a Bad Star

Nathan is alone for the night with Anouk, his three-year-old daughter, for the first time. He has no car, no money, no place to sleep for the night. The evening turns into a long night full of encounters, mostly of men like him wandering aimlessly and drinking, recounting stories of the children they have lost.

A film like spring, a bittersweet coming-of-age tale that feels very real in a joie-de-vivre way. This is a film about complex relations and about celebrating freedom, told as a nature-saturated love story with secret doors that sometimes even creek when closed, with everyone bathed in that special kind of light from that sun that only seems to shine for adolescents.

Upset about her mother's illness, which gets worse with each passing day, Milène leaves Paris to prepare for the entrance exam for an elite business school. Seeking calm at a farm in the Auvergne, she struggles to concentrate. The surrounding countryside and an encounter with Momo make her forget her troubles. But fall arrives and time is running out.