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Valérie Donzelli

Valérie Donzelli (Just the Two of Us, Rendez-Vous 2024) returns with a smaller-scaled human drama starring a riveting Bastien Bouillon as an artist in search of spiritual satisfaction no matter the economic cost.

DIRECTOR
Valérie Donzelli
YEAR
2025
COUNTRY
France
RUNTIME
90 minutes
LANGUAGE
French with English subtitles
ORIGINAL TITLE
À pied d’œuvre

Winner of Best Screenplay at the 2025 Venice Film Festival.

After burning out on a successful but no-longer-fulfilling photography career, Paul (Bastien Bouillon) decides to return to his first love, fiction. To enable work on a novel, he takes on a series of gig-economy jobs while pursuing an increasingly precarious path, baffling both his ex-wife and his unsupportive parents. The breakout star of Rendez-Vous 2022 selection The Night of the 12th, Bouillon is quietly riveting as an artist in search of spiritual satisfaction no matter what the economic cost. After the intense psychological thriller Just the Two of Us (Rendez-Vous 2024), Valérie Donzelli demonstrates her range and facility with smaller-scaled human drama in her seventh feature as a director, sympathetically following Paul through a series of new challenges and encounters that fuel both his writing and this film’s inquiring spirit.

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