CONNEMARA

North American Premiere | France | 2025 | Drama, Romance | 105 min | In French with English subtitles |

Directed by: Alex Lutz
Written by: Alex Lutz, Amélia Guyader, Hadrien Bichet
Based on the Book by: Nicolas Mathieu
Produced by: Emmanuel Georges & Brigitte Ducottet (Supermouche Productions), Edouard de Vesinne (Incognita)
Cinematography: Éponine Momenceau
Original Score: Vincent Blanchard
Film Editing: Margot Meynier
Cast: Mélanie Thierry (Hélène) , Bastien Bouillon (Christophe), Jacques Gamblin (Gérard), Eliot Giraud (Gabriel), Bruno Sanches (Marco), Alexandre Auvergne (Greg), Johanna Lauraire (Clara), Elisa Beauchamp (Mouche), Grégory Montel (Philippe)
International Sales: StudioCanal

Synopsis

Hélène’s picture-perfect life and brilliant career come crashing down around her when she suddenly suffers a burnout. Feeling stuck, unfulfilled and restless, she and her family move back to her hometown… where she runs into Christophe, her high school crush, who has never left. Alex Lutz‘s exquisitely layered adaptation of Goncourt–winning author Nicolas Mathieu’s novel is a bewitching pas de deux by two consummate actors, plunging us into a world of regret and desire, past and present, longing and social divisions, and the choices that shape people’s lives.

Director’s Biography

Alex Lutz is an accomplished stage and screen actor, theater and film director, screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. He began his career on stage, winning two Molière Awards for Comedy in 2016 and 2020. His numerous acting credits include Michel Hazanavicius’s OSS 117: Lost in Rio (COLCOA 2009) and Pascal Bonitzer’s Auction (TAFFF 2024), as well as the TV series Catherine et Liliane (2012-2019), Baron Noir (2020), Becoming Karl Lagerfeld (TAFFF 2024), and Ça, c’est Paris ! (TAFFF 2024). Lutz has previously written and directed four feature films, in which he has also starred: Le talent de mes amis (2015); the mockumentary Guy (2018), for which he won both César and Lumière Awards for Best Actor, and César nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Film; the TV movie La vengeance au triple galop (2021); and Strangers by Night (2023). Connemara, which premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, was released in France in September, is the first film directed by Alex Lutz in which he doesn’t appear.