Jeunes mères (Young Mothers), the latest film by the Dardenne brothers, winner of the Best Screenplay Award at Cannes in 2025, will be the subject of the next Psychoanalysis and Cinema seminar. After the screening, we will have the pleasure of talking with Luc Dardenne. Jeunes mères, the eleventh film by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, follows the intertwined destinies of five very young women living in a maternity home. With great clinical accuracy, it explores the anxieties, hopes, uncertainties, fragilities, and loneliness of each woman as she faces motherhood, for which nothing has really prepared her. For each of them, the future is uncertain and the answer unique. Being a mother is not something that comes naturally. As in all the Dardenne brothers' films, far from distracting us from reality, fiction here brings out its sharpest and most singular edges.

JEUNES MÈRES

Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne

BE, 104', 2025, VO FR ST NL

Synopsis: Jessica, Perla, Julie, Ariane and Naïma are staying at a maternity home that helps them with their lives as young mothers. Five teenagers with the hope of achieving a better life for themselves and their child.

Presentation of the Psychoanalysis and Cinema seminar, an initiative of the ACF-B
The Psychoanalysis and Cinema seminar is made up of psychoanalysts who are cinema enthusiasts, driven by the questions raised by works of art. Cinema and psychoanalysis were born at the same time, and in both cases, it is a matter of viewing and hearing a narrative made up of gaps and omissions; a narrative that does not show everything, where we question what concerns us. This seminar is intended to be a “work in progress” on the questions raised by cinema. What do filmmakers teach us about the reality at stake in their work, about the malaise of the times? What does psychoanalysis owe to art? This is the thread running through the conversations we propose, in direct connection with what Lacan said in his tribute to Marguerite Duras: “always remember that the artist precedes the psychoanalyst.”