Beloved

Enchantingly led by Catherine Deneuve and her real-life daughter Chiara Mastroianni, this sly and exquisitely romantic musical-drama from writer/director Christophe Honore spans more than four decades as it follows a mother and daughter's twin misadventures in love.

In Paris, 1964, carefree young Madeleine (Ludivine Sagnier) steals a gorgeous pair of high heels and, while wearing them, is mistaken for an escort – an error that signals the next direction her life will take. But she soon falls for and marries a suave Czech doctor Jaromil (Rasha Bukvic), leaving Paris for Prague. Thirty years later we follow Madeleine's daughter, Vera (Mastroianni), a lovely but reckless young woman whose romantic life is no simpler than that of her mother. She has a sometime-lover Clement (Louis Garrel) but on a trip to London falls for an American (Paul Schneider), a man who'll prove incapable of devoting himself to her.

Classification: MA 15+

Running time: 138 minutes