Directed by Axelle Ropert • 2021 • France
Starring Jade Springer, Léa Drucker, Philippe Katerine
Taking a child’s-eye view of a disintegrating family, director Axelle Ropert offers a supremely sensitive, richly layered reimagining of the divorce drama. Solange (Jade Springer, in a revelatory performance) is a typical thirteen-year-old, curious and full of life. When her parents begin to argue and gradually drift apart, Solange’s world splinters, leaving her increasingly isolated as she attempts to navigate this complicated new reality. Attuned to subtle sensory and emotional details, Ropert immerses us in the world of a girl on the cusp of adolescence who wants the impossible: for love to never end.
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The Apple of My Eye
Directed by Axelle Ropert • 2016 • France
Starring Bastien Bouillon, Mélanie Bernier, Antonin FressonDirector Axelle Ropert puts a fresh spin on the 1930s-style screwball comedy with this charmingly literal take on the old adage that “love is blind.” Demand is low for rebetiko (Greek folk music...
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Miss and the Doctors
Directed by Axelle Ropert • 2013 • France
Starring Louise Bourgoin, Cédric Kahn, Laurent StockerBoris (Cédric Kahn) and Dimitri (Laurent Stocker) are brothers and doctors with a family practice in Paris’s Chinatown. When they take on a young diabetic patient and both fall for the girl’s charmin...
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The Wolberg Family
Directed by Axelle Ropert • 2009 • France
Starring François Damiens, Valérie Benguigui, Léopoldine SerreAxelle Ropert made the leap from film critic and screenwriter (and frequent Serge Bozon collaborator) to director with this bittersweet domestic tragicomedy, the first of her tender and richl...
