Tentatively paced French flick about loss and redemption, with Ascaride typically superb as the embroiderer embittered by her son's death, while Naymark is extraordinary as the farm girl desperate to hide her condition and escape her dead-end supermarket job.
But it's Faucher's meticulous pacing, sensitive insight and intimate textures and close-ups that give the film its soul. A film about two women mending fabric may not sound like everybody's cup of tea, but this is also about the mending of broken hearts, and in depicting that, the movie succeeds with a rare economy of purpose.