Against The Wind - French Film Festival  CTC

Rating CTC

Release DateSunday, 25 March 2012

Length 1hrs 31min

Main Cast Benoît Magimel, Isabelle Carré, Audrey Tautou, Ramzy Bedia, Antoine Duléry

Movie DirectorJalil Lespert

DistributorFrench Film Festival

From gifted actor-turned-director Jalil Lespert, Against The Wind is a radiant, emotional and superbly realised story of one father’s challenge to keep his family together.

One morning, Sarah (Audrey Tautou) vanishes, leaving her husband Paul (Little White Lies’ Benoît Magimel) and their young son and daughter reeling, without a word as to her whereabouts or a clue about when she will return. As time passes, Paul anxiously but tenderly tries to sustain some sense of normalcy and after a year, in an attempt to start over, he reluctantly returns to his coastal home town. There, he takes a job as a driving instructor, reunites with his estranged brother and befriends a local police officer (Isabelle Carré). But still he dreams of Sarah, refusing to let go.

Why did she leave, and will she return?

Based on a best-selling novel by Olivier Adam (the co-writer of Philippe Lioret’s Welcome), Against The Wind is a deeply moving family drama with immense depth and heart.

“Characters true to life” - L’excessif