Maman a Tort
– Do we really know our parents? Fourteen-year-old Anouk suddenly discovers another side to her mother..
Do we really know our parents? Fourteen-year-old Anouk suddenly discovers another side to her mother during an observation workshop that she carries out in the insurance company where her mother works.
An immersion week in the company's adult world, with its little compromises and many cowardly acts, which soon put a seal on her young life. Between an initiation, rift, and assuming responsibility for the first time, the experience is a form of adieu to childhood.
09 Nov 2016
French
Marc Fitoussi
Marc Fitoussi (scenario), Sylvie Dauvillier (collaboration)
Jeanne Jestin, Émilie Dequenne, Annie Grégorio, Nelly Antignac
Anouk, a fourteen-year-old ninth grader, has to spend a week's work experience as part of her school curriculum. As she cannot get an internship at the TV channel she wanted to go to, her single mother Cyrielle, decides to enroll her at the insurance company where she works as a junior executive. Bad pick, because not only Anouk is given nothing more exciting to do than to "re-organize a storage closet" but she also discovers some nasty secrets the Serenita company keeps hidden. Nasty secrets her mother might have something to do with...