In Justine Triet’s Sibyl—starring Gaspard Ulliel, Virginie Efira and Sandra Hüller—chaos equates to delight and the ethically wrong is exhilarating. Psychoanalysis and cinema come together in a thrillingly erotic and perilous game blurring fiction and reality, dizzyingly escaping any classification.

While the American tradition of the romantic comedy has waned in recent years, Justine Triet’s portrait of a woman at a crossroads in the courtroom and bedroom proves the beloved genre is alive and well in France. A feminist revision of the romcom—proving the familiar can still be unpredictable.

In a touching and graceful tale of modern motherhood and romance, Virginie Efira plays a woman of boundless compassion—and is as radiant as ever. Embracing love in various heart-stealing guises, Rebecca Zlotowski’s fifth feature also has a delightful cameo from adoptive Parisian, Frederick Wiseman!