Florida

Floride (2015) is a French comedy-drama directed by Philippe Le Guay that you can watch online on iFILM. Claude Lherminier is eighty and still commands a room. His memory, though, is failing in ways he flatly refuses to acknowledge. His daughter Carole wages a daily, exhausting battle to keep him safe without taking away the last of his independence.

Then Claude announces he wants to go to Florida. Just like that, without explanation. Jean Rochefort, one of French cinema's great character actors, carries the role with the kind of stillness that makes it impossible to tell where stubbornness ends and confusion begins. Sandrine Kiberlain matches him as the daughter who loves him and is slowly worn down by him in equal measure.

Le Guay refuses both the easy sentiment and the clinical distance that films about dementia usually settle for. The result sits closer to Chekhov than to tearjerker. Stream Floride (2015) online on iFILM.