Heat wave
(Favourites DVDs)

Extras to be confirmed, Region 2, 1 disc(s), Interactive menus, Languages (French), Subtitles (English).

Made in 2011.

Credits: director, Jean-Jacques Jauffret; writer, Jean-Jacques Jauffret; cinematographer, Samuel Dravet.

DVDN.

Cast: Adele Haenel, Ulysse Grosjean, Sylvie Lachat, Julien Bodet, Yves Ruellan, Hubert Colas, Sylvette Loisy, Jacques Jauffret, Arnaud Meunier, Alain Lelouch.

French drama in which the lives of five interconnected individuals from Marseilles begin to intertwine over the course of an afternoon. Supermarket cashier Amelie (Adele Haenel) has her world turned upside down just as her boyfriend, Luigi (Ulysse Grosjean), needs to break some bad news to her after falling out with his father. Amelie's overweight mother Anne (Sylvie Lachat), meanwhile, has set off into the city for an important appointment. Luigi and his cousin, Stephane (Julien Bodet), attempt to navigate adulthood and a mysterious elderly man named Georges (Yves Ruellan) goes about his daily life, before making a decision that could change things forever.

BBFC code: tc.

DVD.