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Clémence leaves home, leaving her husband Laurent and son Paul with it, because her dream is to write and be emotionally free. The situation isn’t ideal when, already as his ex-wife, Clémence tells Laurent she’s attracted to women. He begins to exploit Paul’s resentment to make absurd accusations of molestation, claiming Clémence is responsible for his son’s traumas. Thus begins a war between Clémence and the bureaucracy, between Clémence and Laurent, between Clémence and her own idea of being a mother. It’s a battle of attrition, exploiting the passage of time, which transforms the relationship between Clémence and Paul into one of gradual detachment. Director Anna Cazenave Cambet and her editor Joris Laquittant make temporal ellipses hide within the folds of the story, so that the time that passes ruinously without Clémence being able to see her son again is an unstoppable waterfall, which makes her lose the chance to see Paul grow, mature, be able to rely on her, bond with her in proportion to the love they have for each other.
DIRECTORY

After studying photography, she began attending the Directing Department at La Fémis in Paris and graduated with honors from a committee chaired by Claire Denis. Her first film, Gold for Dogs, was selected for the 2020 Cannes Critics’ Week and released in France in 2021. She has co-written the screenplay for numerous directors. Her last feature film, Love Me Tender, was selected at the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes 2025.


