A car, following the Tour de France. Children screaming in front of the puppet show. Women, often prostitutes, trying to scream as they are being strangled. Then he will meet Claire, the virgin who will give herself to him, and perhaps deliver him from his malediction. Written by Gregoire Dubost {gregoire.dubost@polytechnique.fr}

Barbie will open this year’s Quinzaine! This Barbie, playedby Agnès Jaoui, is the protagonist of Sophie Fillières’ magnificent final film, This Life of Mine. A midlife crisis in three acts:a comedy, a tragedy and an epiphany, delivered wholeheartedly, with the breaks in tone and the high-wire dialogue thatare the hallmark of Fillières’ cinema. The filmmaker has left us a self-portrait, as exquisite as it is intimate, to which Agnès Jaoui lends body and soul.