Tenderness (La tendresse)

French road trip drama on themes of family, affection and understanding. A divorced couple are forced back back into each other's company when they drive - across snowy European vistas - to pick up their son, a ski instructor who's fractured his foot while snowboarding.

"A surprisingly light road movie that does justice to its title, not only focusing on the tenderness between parents and son, but also between the son and his lover, and between the divorced parents themselves. Frans and Lisa have been separated for 15 years, so what is it that comes to the surface when they get in the car to drive from Brussels to the ski village Flaine deep in the Alps to pick up their injured son? Indifference? Jealousy? Friendship? Love? When they reach the village, designed in the 1970s by Le Corbusier, its concrete structures offer a unique background for this nimble reflection on broken love." (International Film Festival Rotterdam)

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