A father and daughter's tender relationship is strained by the arrival of a handsome neighbor in Claire Denis' sublime new film.

Claire Denis (Trouble Every Day - SFFF 2002, Friday Night - SFFF 2003) crafts this subtle family drama about the close connection between a widower named Lionel (Alex Descas), a train driver on the RER, and his daughter, Joséphine (Mati Diop). Since the death of her mother when Joséphine was a young girl, she and her father have depended only on one another, living together, almost as a couple, even now that Joséphine has reached adulthood and is a college student. But, Joséphine and Lionel realize that the time for them to move on may have come when a handsome young man (Grégoire Colin) attracts Joséphine's attention

Claire Denis, teaming once again with cinematographer Agnès Godard, offers a magnificently photographed and stylish film about the complexity of father and daughter's love and a father's realization that his daughter is on the verge of independence.

Shown with Toi que j'eusse aimé by Emmanuel Broussouloux

Q&A with Liz Constable, Director, Film Studies, Women and Gender Studies UC Davis, & Daphne Potts, Comparative Litterature UC Davis, follows both screenings.