La Tête de maman (2007)
Directed by Carine Tardieu

Film Synopsis

Lulu is 15 and like many girls of her age she is finding the transition from childhood to adulthood painful.  She receives little support from her mother, Juliette, who seems to have become almost completely detached from the world.  Lulu cannot account for her mother's obvious unhappiness.  She hardly every talks to people, she has no friends, and just mopes about all of the time, never smiling, never laughing.  It is as if the life has completely gone out of her.  And yet Juliette wasn't always like this.  In some old photographs and a home movie Lulu sees a very different woman.

When she was twenty, before Lulu was born, Juliette was as cheerful and out-going as any woman of her age.  She appears happiest when she is in the company of her boyfriend, Jacques - how she must have been in love!  Lulu has never seen her mother look so alive than in these fading imprints of her past life.  Now she realises just why Juliette is so unhappy.  She is pining for the only man she ever loved, her beloved Romeo.  Without delay, the enterprising teenager sets out to find the missing man and reunite him with his lost love, believing that by doing so she will restore to her mother's face the smile that has been absent for so long...