Boomerang

Boomerang (2015) is a French drama you can watch online on iFILM. Adapted from Tanguy Viel's novel, it follows a man on the edge of forty who decides he finally needs to know the truth about how his mother died.

Antoine, played by Laurent Lafitte, comes back to the island of Noirmoutier where he grew up. Three decades earlier his mother died, and the family quietly buried the circumstances along with her. The harder he digs, the more his father pushes back — a man with plenty to keep hidden — and the more unsettled his sister Agnès, played by Mélanie Laurent, becomes. The old summer house holds things that were meant to stay unspoken. The past comes back the way a thrown boomerang does, straight at whoever set it loose.

Director François Favrat keeps it intimate and restrained, trusting silence and suggestion over big reveals. Laurent and Lafitte carry it on quiet, careful performances. This one suits viewers who like slow family dramas with a thread of mystery and the cold pull of the Atlantic coast. Stream Boomerang (2015) online on iFILM.