SECRET VACATION

AT first sight, Belgian director-screenwriter Joachim Lafosse’s French film, Six Days in Spring, might seem like pivoting on a trifle, but it gains in depth as the narrative coasts along.

- NAMRATA JOSHI

A ‘slice of holiday’ film that ends up holding a mirror to life itself, its many inequities, injustices, and incongruities. Eye Haidara plays Sana, the single mother of a pair of preteen twins, who, despite the financial hurdles, is intent on taking them on Easter holidays to her boyfriend Jules’ (Jules Waring) family home. As his sister’s unexpected arrival rules that out, he offers to book them a room in an expensive hotel. Unable to find cheaper accommodation and unwilling to have him splurge needlessly, the proud Sana decides to head for St Tropez to secretly lodge themselves in her former in-laws’ unoccupied villa.