André Téchiné’s films exist in a rarefied atmosphere between idyllic nostalgia and haunting memory. Ma Saison Préferée is the bittersweet story of Emilie (Catherine Deneuve), a successful, repressed, middle aged business woman, sensitively told through the banality of everyday life: a pervasive, uncomfortable silence during family dinner; a vague conversation with her degeneratively ill mother […]
