This is the France Info film of the week, It is you that I was waiting for, by Stéphanie Pillonca, a documentary that tackles the delicate question of adoption from all angles.
Two couples Alexandra and Sylvain, Enora and Gilles, who are at different times in the long journey of adoption. Alexandra, an English woman who gave birth in France when she was a teenager, who left her child there under x and that she dreams of finding, finally Sylvain, who wants to know who her biological mother was. Life paths that Stéphanie Pillonca follows over a year, with moments of hope and disappointment.
“It is the simplicity, the dignity, the excitement of these couples that moved me.”
Stephanie Pilloncato franceinfo
We discover that in the social services which have taken in a little girl born under x and who is going to be adopted, we explain everything to her, even if she is only a few months old … We meet a private detective, an old lady who is trying to remember who was this woman who traveled more than 500 km to give birth under x, and we share the anxieties of Sylvain, who lives with a chronic fear of abandonment.
It’s delicate, full of emotion of course, but the camera knows how to put itself at a distance and Stéphanie Pillonca was able to do the right casting.
Since Victoria by Justine Triet, she is unanimous in each of her appearances, Virginie Efira is one of the most gifted actresses of her generation, no doubt about it, Antoine Barraud entrusts her with the main role of Madeleine Collins.
In this labyrinthine film, a woman, a performer, leads a double life, between two families, her husband and two sons in France, another man and a little girl in Switzerland.
Living in a lie like this is a combat sport, Virginie Efira is almost Hitchcokienne in this headlong rush which can only lead to carnage, her performance is remarkable. Can it make forget the heaviness of the scenario and the family secret which is revealed without finesse, to the public to decide.
Nir Bergman is one of the writers of the cult Israeli series In therapy, with the same sense of rhythm and precision he shot My Kid, moving but not tearful road trip of a father and his autistic son.
Aaron let go of his work as a renowned graphic designer to take care of Uri entirely, whose obsessions and anxieties he tactfully accompanies, but when the teenager’s mother wants to enforce the judgment which orders Uri’s placement in a specialized center, Aaron takes the tangent and flees with his son.
The elusive gaze of others on this duo on the run, the facetious personality of the young disabled, the excess of love of the father, everything is right in this film carried from start to finish by Noam Imber who plays Uri, the director not having failed to cast an autistic for the role.
Five years after the first opus, all the bugs of the Buster Moon gang are back on the stage for a grandiose show in a twin city of Las Vegas. Despite the Covid, show must go on!