The Bare Necessity

Swann Arlaud, Maud Wyler, Fanny Ardant, and Nicolas Maury star in writer-director Erwan le Duc’s romantic dramedy. The arrival of an enigmatic and itinerant diarist disrupts the insular and predictable life that a rural police captain had fashioned for himself and his eccentric family (his widowed mother, his divorced brother, and his niece). Sparks fly as their opposing personalities and worldviews challenge each other’s., The arrival of an enigmatic and itinerant diarist disrupts the insular and predictable life that a rural police captain had fashioned for himself and his eccentric family (his widowed mother, his divorced brother, and his niece). Sparks fly as their opposing personalities challenge each other’s.