Come Undone

Come Undone (Presque rien, 2000) is a French drama by Sébastien Lifshitz you can watch online on iFILM. Mathieu, eighteen, arrives at the Atlantic coast for summer and meets Cédric. Something starts. It does not have a name yet.

Lifshitz tells the story out of sequence — the warmth of summer keeps breaking against glimpses of what comes after. Jérémie Elkaïm and Stéphane Rideau carry almost everything through silence and small gestures; there is very little dialogue carrying the weight. The family trouble surrounding Mathieu sits alongside his interior uncertainty, and neither cancels the other out. A Belgian-French co-production that handles first love with the restraint that lets you feel exactly how fragile it is. Stream Come Undone (2000) online on iFILM.