The Cinematheque

Luxembourg

“Molitor has challenged himself to go even further in his portrayal of complex human interactions.”

Vitor Pinto, Cineuropa

The odd and decidedly unhealthy relationship between an adult son and his smothering, widowed mother is explored in Luxembourgian director Jacques Molitor’s fiction-feature debut. After the suicide of his father, Flëpp, an emotionally-stunted twentysomething, becomes his mother’s sole companion—and near-substitute husband. When he meets a cute, fiery runaway who exploits the independence he’s denied, Flëpp starts to question his devotion to his overbearing, inappropriately-affectionate mother. The director’s previous film was the well-received 2012 documentary Sweetheart Come, a portrait of sexual diversity in Luxembourg.