The film centres on a retired, widowed professor living in Paris who develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.

An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer.

Agnès Jaoui co-writes and directs this romantic comedy of manners set in France’s rustic Provence. Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella (co-scripter Jean-Pierre Bacri) reluctantly attends Racine’s tragedy “Berenice” in…