AwardsWatch - ‘Love Letters’ Review: A Quietly Powerful Portrait of Queer Motherhood [B] Cannes

AwardsWatch - ‘Love Letters’ Review: A Quietly Powerful Portrait of Queer Motherhood [B] Cannes

Love Letters opens with a broadcast reporting France has legalised same-sex marriage; it’s a national celebration, but for Céline (Ella Rumpf), there is still unfinished business. Writer-director Alice Douard’s first solo directorial feature is a reflective but ardent rumination on motherhood and who gets to hold that label. Set in Paris in 2014, 32-year-old Céline…

Film Review: Alice Douard's Love Letters

Alex Heeney reviews Alice Douard's debut feature Love Letters, which screens in the Critics' Week sidebar at Cannes. The film tells the story of a queer woman in 2014 whose partner is pregnant with their child, and the paperwork involved with becoming her daughter's legal parent. The post Film Review: Alice Douard’s Love Letters appeared first on Seventh Row.