Known to her biggest despair as ‘Barbie’, Barberie Bichette (Agnès Jaoui) may have been beautiful, a good mother, a reliable colleague, a great lover, yes, perhaps… but that was before she predictably and inevitably turned 55. Now, things are getting darker, sometimes violent and often absurd. How then will she deal with her own self, others, and simply life in general? Winner of the SACD Prize at the Directors’ Fortnight at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Sophie Fillières’s final film This Life of Mine centres on a woman in crisis but set to find who she truly is.
"Fillières delivers a final film imbued with freedom and self-knowledge. "
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