For a Woman

For a Woman (Pour une femme, 2013) is a French drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Diane Kurys. Anne's mother dies and leaves behind an old photograph. The man in it is a stranger. Anne did not know he had existed at all.

Following the photograph leads her to a vanished uncle who spent time with her parents in the years immediately after the war — and to the story of a love affair her mother kept entirely to herself. Benoît Magimel, Mélanie Thierry and Sylvie Testud head the cast.

Kurys built the screenplay around her own family history. The film is patient and unhurried — less about what happened than about what gets buried for decades and what it costs to finally pull it up. Stream For a Woman (2013) online on iFILM.