Synopsis
Our Struggles (Nos batailles, 2018) is a French-Belgian drama by Guillaume Senez, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Olivier is thirty-nine, a warehouse foreman who pours himself into defending his coworkers' rights. Then one morning his wife is simply gone.
Laura walks out, leaving him with two children and no explanation. And she isn't coming back. The man who fights for everyone else suddenly can't keep up with his own — school runs, fevers, dinners, sleepless nights, a daughter's question with no good answer. Romain Duris plays it almost wordlessly, in slumped shoulders and long pauses, in the way a father teaches himself the job from scratch. Senez shot it with improvisation and withheld the full script from his cast, so every scene feels caught rather than staged.
It's quiet, honest filmmaking about the moment the personal and the social land on one person at once. Made for viewers who value restrained European drama with no swelling score to tell them how to feel. Stream Our Struggles (2018) online on iFILM.
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