Paris Awakens
(Paris s'éveille)

After four years of absence, Adrien, 19, returns to his father in order to try and patch things up. There he meets Louise, his father’s girlfriend, just a tad older than he is…. This Œdipal study of a love triangle is marked by teenage rage and passion. In this third feature film, characterized by the cineaste's emblematically singular “up-close” directing, Olivier Assayas continues to gracefully take hold of the emotions and scars of youth, producing a realistic social thriller thanks to the performances of Jean-Pierre Léaud as the father and Thomas Langmann and Judith Godrèche as the insolent young adults.