Julia(s)

Le Tourbillon de la vie (2022), released abroad as Julia(s), is a French drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director Olivier Treiner follows a single woman down every fork her life might have taken, with Lou de Laâge as Julia.

The structure is a chain of "what if." A passport left at home, the wrong checkout line, one ride on a scooter — and the whole road bends elsewhere. The film replays several versions of the same person: one where she becomes a concert pianist, one where she lets love slip, one where a trivial mistake costs her everything. Raphaël Personnaz, Isabelle Carré and Esther Garrel move through her possible lives.

Treiner skips sci-fi machinery and leans on one plain question — how much of our path do we actually choose. The result is a warm, faintly melancholy romance about chance that should land with anyone drawn to stories of crossroads and missed turns. Stream Le Tourbillon de la vie (2022) online on iFILM.