The Children of Others on Arte: the most beautiful film by Rebecca Zlotowski (review)

By telling a love story between a forty-year-old and the estranged father of a 4-year-old girl, she signs her most endearing film, magnified by the alchemy between Virginie Efira and Roschdy Zem.

Other people’s children is broadcast this Wednesday evening on Arte, and can be streamed for free on Arte.TV for a month. When it was released in cinemas, First was won over by this melodrama about “step-motherhood” of remarkable accuracy. Our review:

What makes a filmmaker break through the armor at one point? What triggers them to put more of themselves into a film than they had envisaged? No doubt a mix between a pre-existing desire and a scenario that suddenly impacts their own lives. For Rebecca Zlotowski, there will be a before and an after Other people’s childrenwhich contrasts with his previous works. Intense films but whose cerebrality could be kept at bay, even if in An easy girlit was already cracking under the impetus of the free electron Zahia Dehar.

But with Other people’s childreneverything changes…