Family traditions are challenged by new attitudes in this restrained, exquisite film from Olivier Assayas: a filmmaker whose cinema covers a diverse range of genres and milieus, collectively transforming modern anxieties into engrossing drama. With the late Edith Scob, and a blonde-haired Binoche!

The sophomore feature from Mia Hansen-Løve, this moving drama is sensitively attuned to the intimate dynamics of family life. Inspired by the true-life story of producer Hubert Balsan—famed for his work with Claire Denis—The Father of My Children blossoms with quiet observations on love and loss.