A Week's Vacation

A Week's Vacation

1980 · 99 min · FR · 6.2 (19 votes)
Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · Starring Nathalie Baye, Gérard Lanvin, Flore Fitzgerald, Philippe Noiret, Philippe Léotard, Jean Dasté · Music Pierre Papadiamandis
Drama

Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyon, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.

VIBE

A quiet, introspective drama that feels like a long, thoughtful exhale. It's a film for solitary contemplation, offering a gentle, melancholic look at one woman's internal world and the choices that shape her life.

introspectivemelancholicquietcontemplativeslow-burncharacter-drivenslice-of-lifenaturalisticarthouseidentitycareerpersonal reflectionsolitude
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