Hafsia Herzi stars in this Cannes Un Certain Regard entry as a single mother trying to keep her family together.
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Courtesy of Ad Vitam For his sophomore feature “Words of Love,” director Rudi Rosenberg makes a sensitive family drama about the fraught relationship between a mother and a daughter. Abigaëlle has never met her father and trying to make that connection becomes an obsession of hers — and while her mother, Erika, is supportive, she is also wary of how her wayward ex might affect her daughter’s psyche. Rosenberg crafts these two characters with realistic resonance, though his film veers into sentimentality and some plot points are too coincidental to be entirely believable. Yet somehow, by the end, the result is both moving and captivating.
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