Spare Keys

Nancy, in eastern France. Summer. Sophie is fifteen and wants out of the atmosphere at home. When her well-off friend Jade leaves on holiday, Sophie quietly takes the key to the family's house in town. She moves into a place she assumes will be empty all summer. It is not: Jade's older brother Stéphane, twenty-three, comes back. He does not throw her out. He leaves the door open, and something unexpected forms between two people from entirely different worlds. Jeanne Aslan and Paul Saintillan wrote and directed it together; it is their first feature. Céleste Brunnquell plays Sophie and Quentin Dolmaire plays Stéphane. It was named best film in the New Directors section at San Sebastián.