La belle année

A striking hybrid documentary about an unfulfilled love affair that continues to shape a life long after it has faded. In Morières-lès-Avignon in southern France, director Angelica Ruffier clears out her childhood home following her father’s death. Amid practical obligations and unresolved emotions, memories are stirred by the intense and solitary love she carried as a teenager for her history teacher, Mademoiselle B. The deeper Angelica delves into the past, the clearer it becomes that her longing cannot be ignored: she must see again the woman who once meant everything.