Heat Wave

Year: 2009

Runtime: 99 mins

Language: French

Director: Sophie Lorain

Comedy

After her cheating husband's death, 52‑year‑old social worker Gisele becomes obsessed with Yannick, a 19‑year‑old former client who struggles with kleptomania and addiction. Though she fights the forbidden attraction, her sister, employer and her two children each begin to interfere, endangering her clandestine meetings with the young man.

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