Headwinds

Headwinds (Des vents contraires, 2011) is a French drama from Jalil Lespert you can watch online on iFILM. Novelist Paul is left alone with two children after his wife Sarah vanishes overnight.

A year of searching turns up nothing, so Paul takes the kids to Saint-Malo, the coastal town where he grew up. Starting fresh by the sea brings no peace — guilt, doubt and one chance encounter drag him back toward the question he dreads: what really happened to Sarah. Benoît Magimel carries the film on a quiet, near-wordless register, with Isabelle Carré and Audrey Tautou alongside him. It's adapted from Olivier Adam's novel, a hushed study of grief and stubborn hope. Stream Headwinds (2011) online on iFILM.