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All to Play For

2023 · 112 min

A quietly wrenching, grounded portrait of a mother ground down by bureaucracy, watching her fight with mounting anxiety and sympathy.

Overview
Sylvie lives with her two children whom she’s raising on her own. One evening, there’s an accident, and her youngest son is removed from her care. Sylvie must subsequently fight to get her son back and to keep herself afloat.
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • parenthood
  • justice
  • class
  • isolation
Places
  • big city
  • home
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour1
Realism9
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Delphine Deloget
Written by
Delphine Deloget
Starring
Virginie Efira, Félix Lefebvre, Arieh Worthalter, Mathieu Demy, India Hair, Alexis Tonetti, Andréa Brusque, Oussama Kheddam
Cinematography
Guillaume Schiffman
Runtime
112 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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