Marie-Francine

Marie-Francine (2017) is a French-Belgian comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by and starring Valérie Lemercier. At fifty, Marie-Francine loses her husband, her job and her apartment all at once — and moves back in with her parents.

Sharing a dinner table with Mum and Dad again, living off pocket money, sleeping in her old room: it sounds grim, but Lemercier plays it with a sharp, self-deprecating wit. Denis Podalydès is her accidental companion — another adult child who ended up right back where he started. The two misfit returnees circle each other with growing warmth, and the film turns what could have been a cringe comedy into something genuinely light on its feet.

Stream Marie-Francine (2017) online on iFILM — a small, honest film that argues fifty is not too late to start again.