Virginie Efira in a touching film about blended families

It’s a subtle and universal story, a woman, a man, a budding love that settles and a family recomposition. All the more banal in appearance, but a story that had never been brought to the screen. “If I hadn’t seen that it didn’t exist in fiction, if I hadn’t seen that it didn’t just concern me but a lot of people around me, I wouldn’t have dared to make a film of it. But there everything was aligned so that I tell myself that it will have to be done“, summarizes Rebecca Zlotowski, director of the feature film Other people’s children.

Rachel is a popular teacher, a childless woman who becomes attached to Leïla, her lover’s granddaughter. “The mother of this child welcomes this new relationship with kindness, but for all that, are we part of it? And for how long ?“, asks Virginie Efira. This film tells of an inevitable risk-taking, a leap into the void with a man torn between his different loves. Without ever falling into pathos, Other people’s children achieves the feat of making all the characters sympathetic and terribly close.