Éléonore Faucher shows a sure directorial hand in this rural spin on an odd-couple-cum-rites-of-passage tale, neatly folding a theme of embroidery into a tale of grief, recovery and a 17-year-old's pregnancy. Having chucked her supermarket check-out job, the round-bellied Claire (Lola Naymark) checks in for work with Madame Mélikian (Ariane Ascaride), a local, Lacroix-connected embroiderer. As a wary Mélikian slowly warms to her timid but tenacious charge, the friendship teases out fresh threads in their lives.
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