Milo

7h40 ce matin-là

DCP / Color / 114’
French with Turkish and English Subtitles
France, 2026

Director: Nicole Garcia
Screenplay: Nicole Garcia, Jacques Fieschi, Laurette
Cinematography: Yves Cape
Editing: François Gédigier
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Théodore Pellerin, Artus, Laure Calamy, Charles Berling, Éric Elmosnino, Alexis Manenti, Anne Brochet
Producer: Alain Attal
Production: Les Productions du Trésor, France 3 Cinéma, StudioCanal
World Sales: Studio Canal

Synopsis

The new film Milo by the award-winning French actress and director Nicole Garcia, whom we know from the movies Place Vendôme and From the Land of the Moon, is a mysterious and touching film about “reckoning.” Bringing together French cinema stars Marion Cotillard and Laure Calamy with young talent Théodore Pellerin, the film competed at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Alice (Cotillard), with her melancholic gaze, arrives in the town of Romans-sur-Isère in the middle of France—a place with no apparent charm to settle down. She claims to have lived in Quebec for years and takes a job as a waitress in a cafeteria. She shows a special interest and approaches Milo, a 19-year-old worker who is a customer at the cafeteria, with tenderness. In this provincial town where everyone knows each other, it will soon come to light that she is hiding her past and her real name. Milo is not a film of “secrets and lies”; it quickly reveals that Alice is actually Milo’s biological mother, who was forced to give him up for adoption when he was four years old, and that she has been in prison for fifteen years due to her involvement in political violence. However, the film focuses not on an emotional mother-son reunion, but rather on the hardships people face during a never-ending socio-economic crisis. As the secrets of Alice’s past unfold one by one, whether she is a perpetrator or a victim becomes ambiguous. Confronted once again with the reality that an order in need of change still grinds people down and that economic struggles push them into illegal activities, Alice takes action to prevent Milo from making the same mistakes she did and to offer him a fair future. Shades of gray leave their mark on the right-and-wrong divide just as much as they do on the setting and season of this socially realistic film.

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