2017 PS Film Festival
film synopsis
At the end of their tour of duty in Afghanistan, Aurore (Ariane Labed) and Marine (Soko) are given three days' decompression leave with their unit at a high-end resort in Cyprus. Rounds of partying are interspersed by group-counseling sessions.
Childhood friends who left Brittany to see the world and saw much more than they bargained for, the two young women respond differently to the program, and tensions surface. When they skip a mandatory therapy session to hang out with two local guys, what feels like a break could signal more danger ahead.
Inspired by the experiences of women from their hometown, and by the decompression exercises that have become standard practice for the French military over the last 10 years, sister writer/directors Delphine and Muriel Coulin have crafted a gripping, sly, sometimes surreal film about trauma, gender, sexism and female friendship.
"Cuttingly observed, fraught and bleakly funny." Guy Lodge, Variety
Winner: Best Screenplay, Un Certain Regard, Cannes