New US Trailer for François Ozon’s ‘When Fall Is Coming’ Dark Comedy

New US Trailer for François Ozon’s ‘When Fall Is Coming’ Dark Comedy

by Alex Billington
March 14, 2025
Source: YouTube

“I wasn’t the mother she wanted.” Music Box Films has revealed an official US trailer for a French indie film titled When Fall Is Coming, another modern film from French director François Ozon. The film premiered at the 2024 San Sebastian & Toronto Film Festivals last year, and will be released in art house theaters in the US starting in April this spring. The story follows Michelle, a retiree in Burgundy, who expects her grandson Lucas but a mistake ruins her plans. When her Parisian daughter Valérie drops off her son Lucas to spend school vacation with his grandma, Michelle, stressed out from her daughter, serves her toxic mushrooms for lunch. Valérie quickly recovers, but forbids her mother from seeing her grandson anymore… Feeling lonely and guilty, Michelle falls into a depression… until Marie-Claude’s son gets out of prison. Reviews state that the film is “a darkly funny French drama worth savoring.” Starring Hélène Vincent, Josiane Balasko, Ludivine Sagnier, Pierre Lottin, Garlan Erlos. Another film about poisonous mushrooms! Watch out.

Here’s the official US trailer (+ poster) for François Ozon’s film When Fall Is Coming, from YouTube:

“Delicious, sinister, and deadly.” After a tumultuous life in Paris, Michelle (Hélène Vincent) has retired to a still existence in Burgundy, tending to her garden and attending services at her parish. The voracious hostility of her adult daughter Valérie (Ludivine Sagnier) remains Michelle’s great puzzlement: how can a child for whom she sacrificed so much treat her with such contempt and suspicion? When Valérie drops off her son for a week with his grandmother, Michelle sees an opportunity to repair the relationship, but a culinary accident soon undercuts whatever trust remains. With the aid of her best friend Marie-Claude (Josiane Balasko), whose son (Pierre Lottin) has recently been released from prison, Michelle plots a path towards restoring the family life so long denied her. With a deceptively placid surface, master stylist Ozon cooks up a twisty and destabilizing thriller where family ties remain the most mysterious ingredient of all.

When Fall Is Coming, also known as Quand vient l’automne in French, is directed by the acclaimed French filmmaker François Ozon, director of many films including Sitcom, Criminal Lovers, Under the Sand, 8 Women, Potiche, In the House, Young & Beautiful, The New Girlfriend, Frantz, Double Lover, By the Grace of God, and Summer of 85, Everything Went Fine, Peter von Kant, and The Crime Is Mine previously. The screenplay is written by François Ozon in collaboration with Philippe Piazzo. This initially premiered at the 2024 San Sebastian Film Festival last year, and it already opened in France last fall. Music Box Films will debut Ozon’s When Fall Is Coming in select US theaters starting April 4th, 2025 this spring. Interested?

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