Chew-Bose | 2024 | Canada, Germany

It’s well documented that “beautiful and charismatic people being beautiful and charismatic on the coast of France” is one of my favourite film genres, and this slots into that genre nicely. With a title that translates to “hello sadness” you’d be forgiven for expecting the same sadness that was relentlessly foreshadowed in the 1958 Jean Seberg adaptation, but we don’t really say hello to the sadness here so much as we recognise it as it passes by. Contextually and tonally, this is best.