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FRENCH | 89 MINUTES | KENDALL SQUARE Éléonore Faucher’s auspicious debut finds pregnant Claire (Lola Naymark) seeking to avoid scandal by leaving her job at the supermarket and heading back to her rural home town, where she gets work with Madame Mélikian (Ariane Ascaride) stitching embroidery for Paris designers. It seems an ideal solution, except that her boss is grieving the loss of her son in an auto accident caused by a local boy with whom Claire falls in love. Meanwhile, her belly is getting bigger, and she dreads the day she’ll have to give up the baby for adoption. Faucher shows restraint (though the Vermeer-like photography perhaps over-embroiders the film), transforming these melodramatic elements into a limpid parable of two mothers, one bereaved of the past, the other of the future.
BY PETER KEOUGH
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