Suite Armoricaine (Pascale Breton, France, 2015)

A Paris-based art historian returns to her native town of Rennes to teach a class. There, she encounters a troubled male student who is contending with an itinerant mother as well as the demands of university life. Grounded in the terrain, music, and language of Brittany, Suite Armoricaine conjures up a sense of place and the mixed emotions evoked by returning to one’s origins.

French with English subtitles.

Part of the 59th San Francisco International Film Festival at the BAMPFA!