Wadeck Stanczak

Thomas is fourteen and perhaps because not much happens in his remote village in southwestern France, he likes to tell tales. But then one day, something really does happen to him, something that upsets his life and the lives of everyone around him. The lives of his grandparents. The life of his father Maurice. The life of Martin, a stranger and fugitive he meets one day.

Luminous as a young actress whose light is dimmed by a string of toxic lovers, Juliette Binoche took Cannes by storm with her first leading role in André Téchiné’s erotic drama. The ferocity of her soon-to-be iconic gaze, which simmers with sensuality and vulnerability, signals the birth of a star.