When Fall Is Coming

2024 [FRENCH]

Comedy / Drama

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 97% · 63 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 76% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 3696 3.7K

mushroom intoxication

Director

François Ozon Photo
François Ozon

Top cast

Ludivine Sagnier Photo
Ludivine Sagnier as Valérie Tessier
Paul Beaurepaire Photo
Paul Beaurepaire as Lucas 18 ans
Adam O-H Photo
Adam O-H as L'enfant de l'église
Isabelle Mazin Photo
Isabelle Mazin as La voisine
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953.13 MB
1280*692
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  nl  
24 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 6
1.91 GB
1920*1038
French 5.1
NR
Subtitles fr  nl  
24 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 28

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jeffpsy 7 / 10

Very poignant: 7.5

Reviewed by snoducky 6 / 10

When fall is coming

An ordinary film.There's no wow factor in this movie at all. It's plain and simple, nothing more nothing less. It's straightforward in the way it tells a story and the story itself is nothing deep nor unique. The acting isn't too bad and does make the film a bit more engaging. The main aspect of the movie that carried it entirely is the cinematography, the scenes are beautifully rendered and balanced to create this almost welcoming, engulfing atmosphere. Every scene is a pleasure to the eye and focuses on every little detail to make it as realistic and genuine as possible. Overall a decent film, nothing special.
Reviewed by frankde-jong 8 / 10

Both literally and figuratively an autumn movie!

"Quand vient l'automne" can be translated as "When fall comes". In this film this can be taken literally as the film has many beautiful images of fall but also figuratively as the film is about two old ladies who are overtaken by their own past.The film starts with one of the old ladies serving a meal of self-picked mushrooms to her daughter. The daugther becomes very sick but survives. Because the tension between the daughter and mother was already there before the meal the question is, was this an accident or an assassination attempt? This is the beginning of a film full of plot twists.The mushroom poisoning theme made me think of "Fiorile" (1993, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani).The film full of plot twists made me think of the earlier Ozon movie "Huit femmes" (2002).Compared to "Quand vient l'automne" "Huit femmes" is a purely artifical movie. "Quand vient l'automne" is much more naturalistic although not in every respect plausible.In "Huit femmes" there are only female characters, in "Quand vient l'automne" there are also male characters, but not in a father role. There seem to be only mothers."Huit femmes" is a pure "who-donnit", "Quand vient l'automne" is much more of the "why-did he/she do it" nature"Quand vient l'automne" is entertainment in the first place. It is good entertainment but in my opinion a bit less entertaining as "Huit femmes". This is due to the fact that the film contains a few little flaws. I will mention two of them.For the first one I return to the accident / assassination question I mentioned in the beginning of this review. At the start of the film memory disorder is suggested as a third possible reason by way of a few "absences" of the main character. This possibility remains up in the air for the rest of the film.In the second place the character of daughter Valérie is very one dimensional (and very unsympathetic). Valérie is played by Ludivine Sagnier, who can do much better. She proved this for example in (you might guess it) .... "Huit femmes".
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