The future of Marguerite, a brilliant student in Mathematics at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, seems all planned out. The only woman from her year, Marguerite is finishing a thesis she has to present to an audience of researchers. On the big day, a mistake shakes all her certainties and all her foundations collapse.

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.

France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so.

Pierre, a devoted father in his 50s, raises his two sons alone. When Louis, the youngest, leaves home to attend the Sorbonne in Paris, Fus, slightly older and not as successful academically, becomes more and more secretive. Driven by a fascination for violence, he gets entangled in far-right extremist groups, at the very opposite of his father’s values. Between them, there is love and hate, until tragedy happens.

An unlikely oddball trio bond during an impromptu trip to the French countryside on a foolhardy romantic mission.