The fifty years old Jean-Claude has a boring life, working as a court official evicting tenants or seizing properties, or spending Sunday afternoons in the retirement home with his rude and bitter father. He starts taking tango lessons and he meets the charming young Françoise.

Far from your typical May to December romance flick, Stéphane Brizé’s unsentimental study of male midlife crisis is refreshingly clear-eyed and sincere. The dance sequences are to die for, as they not only double as furtive seductions but also embody a genuine connection between two fractured souls.