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This film was made concurrently with the filming of Jane B. for Agnes V. about Jane Birkin in the previous year. In the end, it seems like a family film, created by the relationship between the two artists and their shared desire to tell an emotional story about impossible love, emotions, and relationships between humans in a film that would be based on the participation of their family members, especially Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon, Jane's daughters, and Mathieu, Agnès' son from her husband, director Jacques Demy. The humans here are represented in particular by Marie-Jeanne (Birkin), who discovers during a party thrown by her teenage daughter Lucy (Charlotte) for her classmates, her strange attachment to Lucy's friend Julien, who is no more than 14 years old. He is a handsome boy who seems more attached to the video game Kung-Fu Master than anything else, eager to become its hero. Importantly, from here, the relationship between Marie-Jeanne and Julien grows shyly and slowly at first, and that relationship becomes intertwined and escalates gradually, carrying in the end a great deal of passion for the "lovers" and a greater amount of confusion for Julien's mother on the one hand and Marie-Jeanne's daughters on the other, through moments of explosion that almost destroy the two sides of the relationship. However, things will end one day, but especially for Julien, who, after his long passion for Marie-Jeanne, will not hesitate to say when asked if there was a lover in his life, he would answer: Yes, but she was just a woman whose life was so boring that she found the antidote in him and ended up having sex with him! Ibrahim Al Ariss