Le cours de la vie sees Agnès Jaoui give a disturbing and poignant lesson in cinema. In Frédéric Sojcher's film, the actress plays a screenwriter who comes to give a lecture in the film school run by her childhood sweetheart.
Noémie has not seen Vincent since their breakup almost 30 years ago. The course of life finds its momentum, its subtext and its tenderness in the arid setting of a lecture.