Philomene

Decades after World War II, in rural France, a family matriarch unravels the web of lies that stands in for her past...

At ninety-five years old, Philomène still feels ashamed. A summer surrounded by three generations of her beloved progeny would be perfect bliss, if she wasn’t worried that at any moment she might expose the truth—that the woman her daughters have spent their entire lives looking up to is a liar.

Philomène was not the brave war widow of a communist in her youth, not a member...