Him

Him (Lui, 2021) is a French psychological drama you can watch online on iFILM, written, directed by and starring Guillaume Canet. A composer who has run dry packs up and flees to a tiny island off the coast of Brittany.

The empty cottage holds one surprise: a battered old piano. While he coaxes it back into tune, the neighbors start dropping by. One wants to meet the new arrival. Another just wants to talk. The solitude he chased to the edge of the country quietly falls apart, and the women he left behind — an ex-wife, a lover, his mother — keep stepping out of his memory to settle accounts. Virginie Efira, Laetitia Casta, Nathalie Baye and Clive Owen round out the cast.

A small, talky film about a loneliness this man built for himself and can no longer stand. Best for viewers who like quiet European cinema where the drama happens between two people in a room. Stream Him (2021) online on iFILM.