Overview

• The film’s narrative centers on four modern-day heirs who uncover archival artifacts in a long-empty Normandy house, triggering flashbacks to 1895 Paris.
• Klapisch interweaves present-day dramedy with Belle Époque sequences, using hallucinogenic visions as a narrative bridge between characters across eras.
• Critics uniformly praise the film’s luminous Paris cinematography and the cast’s warm performances, especially Suzanne Lindon as Adèle.
• Reviewers note thematic ambition in exploring progress narratives but caution that the film softens historical social hardships, particularly for women.
• One outlet reports that a genetic test reveals distant kinship among the heirs, though this detail remains less widely corroborated in other reviews.