Fabienne is a French movie star. She lives surrounded by men who love and admire her: her new partner, her ex-husband, her agent... She decides to publish her memoires and her daughter Lumir returns from New York, where she lives with her family. The reunion between mother and daughter soon turns to confrontation: truths will come out, scores will be settled, there will be talk of love and resentment.
Hirokazu Koreeda (Tokyo, 1962) debuted in 1995 with Maboroshi no hikari, Golden Osella in Venice. He has competed at San Sebastian with Wandafuru raifu (After Life, 1998), Hana yori mo naho (Hana, 2006), Aruitemo, aruitemo (Still Walking, 2008) and Kiseki (I Wish, 2011), winner of Best Screenplay, and two-time recipient of the Audience Award, for Soshite chichi ni naru (Like Father, Like Son, 2013)—also winner of the Jury Grand Prix at Cannes—and for Umimachi Diary (Our Little Sister, 2015). Manbiki Kazoku (Shoplifters, 2018) won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Festival as well as a Best Foreign Language Film nomination. La vérité (The Truth) competed at the last Venice Festival. Koreeda received the Donostia Award in 2018.