Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Film myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.The title When Autumn Falls suggests a wistful, lyrical affair \u2014 and if that\u2019s the sort of French drama you\u2019re after, then the first 15 or so minutes should suit you fine. But it\u2019s not long before director Fran\u00e7ois Ozon\u2019s taste for subversion kicks in, very bracingly. \u00a0Ozon (Under the Sand, Swimming Pool, the recent The Crime is Mine) excels at roles for actresses of all ages; here he creates a magnificent part for H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Vincent, a revered doyenne of stage and screen. She plays Michelle, an elderly woman living in the Burgundy countryside. Apart from spending time with her friend Marie-Claude (Josiane Balasko), Michelle\u2019s greatest joy is seeing her young grandson. But she has a thorny rapport with her resentful daughter (Ludivine Sagnier), which only gets worse when the mushrooms Michelle has cooked for lunch turn out to be poisonous: carelessness, incipient dementia, or dangerously revealing Freudian slip?What gives the spice to Ozon\u2019s recipe is its heady uncertainty. At the centre of the drama is a crucial incident that we never witness, but which resonates through all that follows. We don\u2019t see it coming when the film shifts registers, becoming a semi-thriller with distinct flavours of Georges Simenon or Claude Chabrol. It is equally elusive about Marie-Claude\u2019s taciturn son, newly out of prison; up-and-coming face Pierre Lottin, playing his cards very close to his chest, is an out-and-out revelation.The whole cast is terrific \u2014 including Sophie Guillemin\u2019s blunt, canny cop \u2014 but, above all, the film is a gift for Vincent, who unpacks Michelle\u2019s complexities with wonderful sensitivity and brio. It\u2019s not least thanks to her that When Autumn Falls succeeds at once as an empathetic psychological portrait, a feminist drama and an emphatic anti-ageism statement \u2014 all executed with the subtlety, craft and sheer sly cheek that are Ozon trademarks.\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606In UK cinemas from March 21 and US cinemas from April 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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