With the beginning of Skylab's filming, we now learn more about Julie Delpy's new movie.

Avec le début du tournage de Skylab, arrivent aussi les premiers éléments de l'intrigue.

Digitalfie reports that:

Scripted by Delpy, the film is structured like a long flashback experienced by Albertine and triggered by a train journey with her husband and two children. During the trip, she remembers another journey she made when she was ten years old.

We are transported from 2018 to 1979. Albertine is with her parents and maternal grandmother on her way to the house of Aunt Suzette, her father’s elder sister, to spend the summer holidays there.

It’s her paternal grandmother’s birthday and the whole family is gathered together, including uncles, aunts and cousins. Endless meals, heated discussions about politics, racism, sexuality and education: the parents pass on their anxiety to the children who hear everything.

Skylab, the US satellite launched by NASA, thus becomes a huge fantasised monster, when it is just an obsession of Anna, Albertine’s mother, a woman who is as charming as she is neurotic, and is convinced it will crash into the west coast of France.

Eric Elmosnino (Gainsbourg, vie héroique, Je T’aime, Moi Non Plus), Sophie Quinton, Marc Ruchmann, Michèle Goddet, Aure Atika and Bernadette Lafont. The cast also includes Jean-Louis Coulloch (Lady Chatterley, Vincent Lacoste (Best Male Newcomer Cesar 2010 for The French Kissers), Noémie Lvovsky, Candice Sanchez, Albert Delpy, Valérie Bonneton and Denis Menochet (Inglourious Basterds).