In 1963 France, a gifted literature student discovers she is pregnant and, unwilling to let it derail the future she has worked so hard to secure, sets out to obtain an illegal abortion at a time when such procedures could mean imprisonment. Adapted from Annie Ernaux's autobiographical novel, Audrey Diwan's Venice Golden Lion winner unfolds with the visceral intimacy of lived memory — a film about bodily autonomy told in the ticking-clock register of a thriller. Anamaria Vartolomei gives a performance of extraordinary precision and courage.
