Lulu in the Nude

Lulu in the Nude (Lulu femme nue, 2013) is a French tragicomedy you can watch online on iFILM. A job interview goes badly, and instead of heading home to her husband and three kids, Lulu simply keeps walking — onto a train, toward the coast, into a life that is suddenly her own.

Karin Viard plays a woman escaping not her family but the version of herself everyone else settled on. Director Sólveig Anspach keeps things small and unhurried: odd jobs, nights on the beach, gentle strangers who are each a little broken. There are no big speeches, just the slow thrill of a grown woman recalling what she wants. If you're worn out on tidy family dramas, this drift along the Normandy shore is a welcome change. Stream Lulu in the Nude online on iFILM.