Synopsis
The Restless (Les Intranquilles, 2021) is a European relationship drama from director Joachim Lafosse, available to watch online on iFILM. Leïla restores art for a living; her husband Damien paints. They love each other fiercely — but Damien lives with bipolar disorder, and that love keeps getting tested at its limits.
The film stays close to the couple, refusing easy diagnosis or uplift. In a manic stretch Damien works through the night, overflowing with plans, sweeping his wife and son along with him. Then the crash comes, and Leïla is left holding the family together, caught between devotion, exhaustion and her own right to a steady life. Lafosse treats the illness not as a plot twist but as the daily labor of two people who won't give up on each other.
The picture screened in the main competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, and it rests almost entirely on its two leads. Leïla Bekhti and Damien Bonnard play raw and unguarded, and you believe every minute. Quiet, honest and adult — for viewers after a real relationship drama rather than a comforting recovery story. Stream The Restless (2021) online on iFILM.
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