When the Sea Rises

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When the Sea Rises tells the story of Irene, an actress traveling from one small town to another with her one-woman show in rural-industrial northern France. Slyly funny in her masked onstage persona, Irene is a genial pro at touring alone, phoning home to her husband and child and sleeping in a new hotel each night. Things change when a scooter-driving vagabond named Dries fixes her stalled car. What develops is a remarkably natural and tender affair between two true eccentrics, their exuberance and playfulness mixing with a mature, mutual longing. (French with English subtitles)