All to Play For
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2024
February 29 - March 10, 2024
When one of her sons has an accident while she’s at work, single mother Sylvie (Virginie Efira) must contend with a stubbornly dispassionate child welfare service system to regain custody of her youngest in Delphine Deloget’s compassionate, carefully observed feature debut.
Q&A with Delphine Deloget on Mar. 8
Once again confirming her status as one of contemporary French cinema’s most magnetic and sensitive performers, Virginie Efira (Other People’s Children, Rendez-Vous 2023) stars in All to Play For as single mom Sylvie. A bartender, Sylvie gamely works late shifts to support her two beloved sons, adolescent Sofiane (Alexis Tonetti) and teen Jean-Jacques (Félix Lefebvre, Summer of ’85, Rendez-Vous 2021). But after Sofiane has an accident while she’s at work, Sylvie must contend with a stubbornly dispassionate child welfare service system to regain custody of her youngest. Making her feature debut, writer-director Delphine Deloget operates in the finest traditions of French realism, offering a compassionate, carefully observed perspective on the travails of a loving parent contending with the mechanisms of an inflexible bureaucratic system. At the center of this multifaceted portrait is Efira, delivering a richly layered performance as an overwhelmed but fiercely dedicated mother.
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