With Love... from the Age of Reason

With Love... from the Age of Reason (L'Âge de raison, 2010) is a French romantic dramedy you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Yann Samuell and led by Sophie Marceau, it follows a high-flying executive who, on her fortieth birthday, starts getting mail from the seven-year-old version of herself.

Marguerite Flora closes deals for a nuclear firm and pencils in her boyfriend once a month. Then an elderly notary hands her a stack of letters she wrote as a child, back when she lived poor with her mother and brother in a village in southern France. The girl reminds the woman of every promise she quietly abandoned. To make the letters stop, Marguerite drives home — and runs straight into the brother she forgot and the boy she once loved. Jonathan Zaccaï and Marton Csokas round out the cast.

Samuell, who made Love Me If You Dare, returns to the gap between childhood vows and grown-up math, and keeps the sugar off it: the letters sting more than they soothe. Easy company for a quiet night when you want a gentle story with a little wit. Stream With Love... from the Age of Reason (2010) online on iFILM.