// Presented as part of October's French Art House II Series //

Louis Garrel / 2018, Berlin, BAFICI, Belgrade, French Film Varilux Panorama in Brazil, Festival du Film français en Israël, Fribourg, Glasgow, Göteborg, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival, Munich, New York, NYT Critics' Pick, Prague, Rendez-vous with New French Cinema, San Francisco, San Sebastián, Seattle, Thessaloniki, Tokyo, Toronto, Transilvania, Vienna Francophone Film Festival, Zurich / 75'

Abel has just gotten back together with Marianne, nine years afer she left him for his best friend. In the interim Marianne had a son, Joseph, and Abel seems to look forward to their new life together—soon, however, Abel is being pursued by Ève, a young woman who has been infatuated with Abel since her youth, while Joseph displays escalating signs of disturbance, including troubling accusations regarding his father's death.

Pivoting breezily between past and present, male and female vantage points, and co-written with legendary screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, A Faithful Man unsettles conventional tropes of patriarchy in the French New Wave. Prominent French actor Louis Garrel's second feature film premiered at Berlin; Toronto, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize; San Sebastián, where it won the Jury Prize for Best Screenplay; and BAFICI, where it won Best Director. A Faithful Man is a New York Times Critics' Pick.