Other People's Children

Other People's Children (Les Enfants des autres, 2022) is a French drama directed by Rebecca Zlotowski — watch it online on iFILM. Rachel is a forty-year-old teacher who falls for Ali and slowly, without making a plan, becomes part of his four-year-old daughter Leila's daily life. She does the bedtime routine. She picks her up from nursery. She loves her.

Virginie Efira carries the film with the kind of performance that stays off the nose — Rachel is not a woman in crisis, she is a woman who is perfectly fine and quietly not fine at all. The film keeps both things true at once. Roschdy Zem plays Ali with warmth, and Chiara Mastroianni as his ex-wife adds a layer of complexity that stops the story from feeling one-sided. Zlotowski's direction is restrained throughout, which makes the emotional weight, when it lands, hit all the harder. A precise, adult drama about the shape of a life that didn't go the way you assumed it would. Stream Other People's Children (2022) online on iFILM.