Other People's Children

Featuring a career-best performance from the hugely talented Virginie Efira, award-winning writer/director Rebecca Zlotowski’s enchanting and profoundly moving new romantic drama OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN follows a woman whose outlook on life is upended when she starts a passionate relationship with a single father.

40-year-old Parisian high school teacher Rachel (a radiant Efira) loves her life: she’s inspired by her work and is close to her friends, sister and widowed father. When she meets a man in her community guitar class - the charming and recently-separated Ali (Roschdy Zem) - Rachel commences not only a relationship with him, but also his four-year-old daughter, Leila

Gradually, Rachel allows herself to be drawn into their world, helping Ali by collecting Leila after school and looking after her on the nights she stays with them; the three start to share holidays together. But there can be no denying Leila already has a mother (Chiara Mastroianni), and Rachel’s yearning for a family of her own is only growing stronger…

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French language, English subtitles.
Rating M
Genre Drama
Running Time 104
Language
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