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  • 2023
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2023
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 43 m

Summary When dedicated high school teacher Rachel (Virginie Efira) falls in love with Ali (Roschdy Zem), it’s not long before she also falls for his 4-year-old daughter Leila. The adolescent giddiness of Rachel and Ali’s late night rendezvous and secret sleepovers evolves into the familiar warmth of family picnics and after-school pickups. Altho...

Directed By: Rebecca Zlotowski

Written By: Rebecca Zlotowski

  • 2023
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2023
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 43 m

Other People's Children

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
80
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary When dedicated high school teacher Rachel (Virginie Efira) falls in love with Ali (Roschdy Zem), it’s not long before she also falls for his 4-year-old daughter Leila. The adolescent giddiness of Rachel and Ali’s late night rendezvous and secret sleepovers evolves into the familiar warmth of family picnics and after-school pickups. Altho...

Directed By: Rebecca Zlotowski

Written By: Rebecca Zlotowski

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100
May 17, 2023
There’s a certain kind of French movie that’s a quintessentially French movie: stylish, intellectually engaged, alert to adult emotions and problems. Other People’s Children is that kind of movie — it tells a small-canvas story that loses none of its poignancy for refusing to overreach or give into fatal self-seriousness.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW
90
Apr 20, 2023
Zlotowski is telling a story about a specific woman. She’s also telling a complex, bruising, much larger and quietly self-aware story about both the messiness of life and the fragility of bodies that exist in the real world, not just in fantasies.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
83
Jan 26, 2023
Zlotowski’s fifth feature excels thanks to a compelling lead performance from Efira, giving insight into one woman’s relationship to motherhood. Her wants, her love, and her losses are all on display, built up only to be let down. Baked in a stern reality, the drama never loses that central, necessary thread.
By Michael Frank FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 17, 2023
As a follow-up to her exceptional – and sadly underseen – An Easy Girl from 2019, Other People’s Children could and should finally cement Zlotowski’s place in the top class of European auteurs.
By David Jenkins FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 17, 2022
Nothing particularly unusual or dramatic happens for the first hour of the film, and yet it is so beautifully done and engaging that the whole thing is riveting to watch.
By John Bleasdale FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 29, 2023
George Lechaptois’s sunny cinematography and ROB’s lively score add bright notes to a film that is consistently light on its feet, despite its potentially weighty subject matter.
By Tara Brady FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 21, 2023
Zlotowski’s stylized depiction of Rachel’s life is overly fastidious. Many creative decisions, from the score to the camera blocking, took me out of the movie. Instead of a complex character processing involved, compound emotions, I saw a talented filmmaker lightly touch upon a range of emotions while also studiously avoiding dramatic clichés and stereotypes.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW

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6.3
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Production Company Les Films Velvet, France 3 Cinéma, Canal+, Ciné+, France Télévisions, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Indéfilms 10, Indéfilms Initiative 8, Cinécap 5, Cinécap 3 Développement, Cinéventure 6
Release Date Apr 21, 2023
Duration 1 h 43 m
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Awards

Lumiere Awards, France
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Seville European Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Sarasota Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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