No Love Lost (2023)

When he was just a young lad of twenty, Etienne Gravier (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) was playing baseball near a forest and had a chance meeting there with an artist named Valerie (Mercedes Dassy). They fall head over heels in love and have baby named Rosa, but then one day while the trio are visiting Etienne’s parents, Valerie gets in the car and drives off, never to return. Now a single dad, Etienne devotes his life to taking care of Rosa. Flash forward to seventeen years later and now Rosa (Céleste Brunnquell) is a full-on teenager, dating a guy named Youssef (Mohammed Louridi) and dreaming of studying at the art academy in Metz, while Etienne has moved on with a taxi driver named Hélène (Maud Wyler). Or at least, he thinks he’s moved on, until Etienne catches sight of Valerie on the television on a program filmed in Portugal, prompting him to take Rosa to go on a journey to find her. Sometimes you just need closure, although Maud’s melons are a great reason to stay put. She goes topless just over twenty-seven minutes in to the film, so while there’s no love lost, there’s definitely a bra that goes missing!