Affection Affection (2025)
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A bureaucrat in a small French town looks into the disappearance of the mayor and his daughter. Her own mother returns after 17 years away, adding personal tension to the investigation.
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What happens
Affection Affection is a French drama film, directed by Maxime Matray and Alexia Walther and released in 2025. The film stars Agathe Bonitzer as Géraldine, a bureaucrat in the mayor's office of a small town on the Côte d'Azur who takes it upon herself to investigate the disappearance of the mayor Jérôme (Christophe Paou) and his daughter Kenza (Clémentine Kaul-Surdez), amid the context of Géraldine's own mother Rita (Nathalie Richard) returning to town for the first time since moving to Thailand 17 years earlier. The cast also includes Marc Susini as Rita's friend Jean-Claude. The film premiered on 13 August 2025 in the Filmmakers of the Present competition at the 78th Locarno Film Festival, and was screened in the International Competition at the 2025 Festival du nouveau cinéma. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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