Over the course of a single night, as the gilets jaunes protests in Paris escalate, an equally tense love story unfolds in a hospital emergency ward.
When two women, Raf and Julie, find themselves trapped in the chaos of a collapsing healthcare system, their already fragile relationship is pushed to its limits. What emerges is a tense, often darkly humorous portrait of a couple on the verge of breaking apart – a study of love under pressure: exhausted, uncertain, and constantly negotiated in moments of crisis.
Starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Marina Foïs, La Fracture moves between political urgency and intimate emotional collapse, showing how care, anger, and love can coexist in relationships that are no longer stable, but not yet over.
ZomerCinema: AMOUR is realized with the support of Institut français NL and the IF-cinéma programme.
ZomerCinema: AMOUR
First love, obsessive love, forbidden love, unrequited love, true love: love comes in a thousand forms — and thus in a thousand films. With a programme of twelfe French films, we celebrate (and question) love in all its manifestations. Because France is the country of love. Right?
From sultry summer films to works that explore the destructive shadow sides of love. And from classics by established filmmakers such as Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut to films by contemporary directors such as Justine Triet and Vanessa Filho: it is l’été de l’amour.
- Director
- Catherine Corsini
- RUNNING TIME
- 99′
- Release Year
- 2021
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Subtitles
- English
- Supported by
- Institut français NL
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