Louise Wimmer

Louise is a woman in her fifties living in her car. She cleans rooms part time at a hotel, spends the night in the car or in a storage unit, and waits in the queue for public housing. What money she has lasts from day to day. She asks nobody for help and tells nobody her situation; that stubborn silence is what the film is really about. Cyril Mennegun's first feature screened at Critics' Week in Venice in 2011 and won the César for best first film in France. Corinne Masiero carries the part without large gestures and was nominated for a César. The telling does not make poverty into story material; it shows how repeating days pass. It runs eighty minutes and the film explains nothing.