Les choses humaines / The Accusation

The Farels are a power couple: he is a famous television presenter, she a writer known for her feminist positions. When their apparently perfect son, who is studying at a prestigious American university, is accused of raping a young woman from a Jewish family, while on vacation in Paris, the family's life flies off the rails. In this film adaptation of the best-selling novel of the same name, director Yvan Attal focuses on some highly topical issues of our times: on the difficulties of legal proceedings in the age of Internet pillorying and on the impossibility of retrospectively determining what constitutes consensual sex. He manages to include the point of view of each character, while leaving the dignity of all intact. LES CHOSES HUMAINES is a stunning drama starring an outstanding Charlotte Gainsbourg.