The winds of change sweep the streets of Paris at a time both intimidating and liberating for a mother and her teenage children. Charlotte Gainsbourg is at her most enchanting in this drama, which follows in the footsteps of the great Éric Rohmer by tenderly and precisely observing human existence.

Olivier Assayas confines his interest in memory to the clement spring of the 2020 pandemic in this deceptive film: profound, light though it first might seem. Wildflowers bloom as the director’s cast bring bourgeois neurotics and their girlfriends to life in his actual (!) Île-de-France family home.