On a rural farm in Belgium, Rose Mayer lives with her brutish husband. After he injures a girl while driving drunk, she plans a karmic retribution for this man who stunted her life. Then, in a pointed narrative shift, browbeaten Rose goes to live with her gay son who has escaped his fraught family homestead for the urbanity of Brussels. As she reawakens in her new environment, she tries to reestablish relations with her son while evading a persistent detective's questions about what happened to her husband. Following up their award-winning collaboration on Séraphine, director Martin Provost and the remarkable Yolande Moreau create another fascinating depiction of female existence, aided by the shifting subtleties of Agnès Godard's cinematographic palette.

Où va la nuit, France/Belgium 2011, 105 min. Written by Martin Provost, Marc Abdelnour. Photographed by Agnès Godard. With Yolande Moreau, Pierre Moure, Edith Scob. In French with subtitles. Roissy Films.