L’été prochain (Next Summer). 1985. France. Written and directed by Nadine Trintignant. With Claudia Cardinale, Philippe Noiret, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Fanny Ardant. Courtesy of Canal+ and Rialto Films. In French; English subtitles. 100 min.
French writer-director Nadine Trintignant assembled a powerhouse cast—including her then-husband, the great Jean-Louis Trintingant, and her daughter Marie, an actor noted for her roles in films by Claude Chabrol, Leos Carax, Alain Corneau, and Ettore Scola—for this touching feminist family drama, a rediscovery of 1980s French cinema. After years of quiet forbearance and the birth of their sixth child, Claudia Cardinale finally decides to leave her philandering husband, the genially incorrigible Philippe Noiret. Years later, when he suddenly takes ill, the entire family is forced into an unwelcome reckoning with their failed relationships and careers.