Love Me Tender

Based on Constance Debré’s revelatory novel of the same name, Anna Cazenave Cambet’s film, elevated by a mesmerizing performance from Vicky Krieps, explores the fraught tensions between motherhood and personal freedom in a world shaped by contradictions and injustice.

Synopsis

When a woman discovers the love she never allowed herself to live, her newfound sexual identity becomes the catalyst for a relentless struggle, not only with her ex-husband, but also with the laws and prejudices that threaten to take her son away.