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Visiting Hours

La Prisonnière de Bordeaux

PATRICIA MAZUY
France, 2024
108 minutes, Color

Visiting Hours is a gripping drama that explores the unexpected bond between two women from vastly different social backgrounds. Alma (Oscar®-nominated and César winner Isabelle Huppert), from the bourgeois class, and Mina (César winner Hafsia Herzi), a young mother from the working class, first meet in the waiting room of a prison where their husbands are incarcerated. Alma's husband, a renowned neurosurgeon, is imprisoned for a fatal drunk-driving accident, while Mina's husband is jailed for a jewelry heist. But the other prisoners here are the women themselves. Their lives revolve around visiting the prison, and the burden of social responsibility for their husbands' crimes falls on them. They are also captives of their respective social classes. Out of loneliness and curiosity, Alma invites Mina and her children to live in her mansion. This marks the beginning of a friendship that reveals class divides, power dynamics, and emotional complexities.—Various sources

In French with English subtitles