An Impossible Love (2018)

I watched this on Kanopy, which is a streaming service that your library might subscribe to, and has some really great films you might not find another way. This is French story of lust, which leads to a mother-daughter story. It has the erotic intensity of a love story and the pathos of a coming-of-age saga, but with a much darker, messier, and more unresolved segue than is strictly traditional in either genre. Christine and Phillipe meet and become involved. It is mid-twentieth century France, and he is very classist, clear that he would find her more marriage material if she had money, is she sure her father doesn't have any? Jews always hide their wealth. At which point she should have kicked him to the curb, but she doesn't, she can't, and over a very long time, she comes to really regret that. The movie has a lot of psychological depth, and the story is deftly told. This is far more than a sincle mother raising her duaghter alone to adulthood, it has a lot to think about wrapped in a 120 minutes.