Fang Song

Suzanne (Juliette Binoche) is charming but she is a mother snowed under by obligations. With her puppet shows, the classes she teaches and the two children, Simon and Louise, that she has been raising alone since their father left, she hasn't got a minute to herself. To help her, she takes in a young Taiwanese babysitter, Song Fang, who is a student at Paris University... (imdb)

Song herself plays the young woman and almost everyone else plays themselves, but Memories Look at Me is not at all a documentary. On the contrary, it's a very precise, very carefully calibrated account of family ties, binds and losses. There's no music (instead, superb sound design by Yamashita Aya), no sentimentality, no melodrama. Just a moving and clear-sighted vision of feelings, spoken and unspoken. (viff)