Carine Tardieu

Fifteen-year-old Lulu wonders why her mother is always depressed, sickly and staring at nothing. When she finds a photograph of her mom's younger happier self, she sets out to find what was behind that smile and try to bring it back.

Nine year old Rachel Gladstein is a member of a slightly hysterical family. Her overprotective and strongly matriarchal Jewish-Tunisian mother is worried and sends her daughter to a psychiatrist. Rachel becomes good friends with Valerie, who lives alone with her mother. The Dandelions is a film with many parent-child themes seen through the perspective of the mothers and the daughters.
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When 45 year old widower Erwan discovers by accident that the man who raised him isn't his real dad, he begins a search for his biological father. He soon locates the mischievous, 70 something Joseph, whom his mother knew briefly. Erwan falls not only for his charm, but that of the impetuous Anna, who has ties to them both. The conflicting familial loyalties soon become compounded by the pregnancy of his own daughter Juliette, who defiantly refuses to name the father.

Two lovers meet 15 years after the first encounter, in the corridor of a hospital. She's 71, he's 45. Opposed but mesmerized by each other, they reconnect. Widow, mother, grand-mother, Shauna wants to reaffirm she's a woman after all. (imdb)