It’s the abortion movie for our post-Roe moment.
, adapted by Audrey Diwan from an autobiographical novel by Annie Ernaux, the unhappily pregnant young woman at the movie’s center, a bright university student named Anne , has no road-trip buddy, no cousin, no sympathetic employer or high-school bestie to help her find her way through the maddening labyrinth of trying to end a pregnancy in 1963 Angoulême.
Perhaps she keeps her condition a secret because she comes from a working-class family—her mother works as a bartender in their small provincial town—that lacks the resources to offer help. Or maybe she fears they would object on religious grounds, though none of the characters inwho fail to respond to Anne’s ever more frantic pleas for help ever cites faith as the reason.
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