Noémie Lvovsky, screenwriter, actress, director always explores this fragile and porous contact zone between being and reality, between the inner world and the outside world.

But here it is the childhood she probes through the eyes of Mathilde (luminous Luce Rodriguez) who struggles valiantly to protect her mother from the madness that invades it.

A mother-daughter relationship

After a very touching first scene in the office of the psychologist of the school of Mathilde, the camera almost leaves the little girl.

" We wanted to tell Florence Seyvos, with whom I wrote, a childhood story that was turned literally to the height of a child, in order to imagine this crazy love story between a little girl and her mother " .

Mathilde's mother is on the verge of madness. Moving, fantastic but also absent, she escapes more and more to the control of her daughter who must manage on her own despite her young age. Yet the instability of the mother is not the subject of study of Noémie Lvovsky, but rather a pretext to relate the absolutely mysterious bond that unites a mother and her daughter.

" I think that in the love of a little girl for her mother, there is something very strong, of necessity wild. I had probably wanted to make this film because I did not know how to put words on it. There is a phrase from Duras that accompanied Florence and me during the writing: "In one life the mother is the strangest, the most elusive, the most unpredictable person one can meet ."

In this totally dreamlike film the presence of a talking owl is not surprising. He accompanied with humor and discernment Mathilde in his solitude.

" As we were trying to be this little girl, we naturally thought that the bird had to speak ... He is at the same time a big brother, a guide, a companion, a part of his conscience, but also his own voice . ".

Without forgetting the fourth character in this family home, which is the father (Mathieu Amalric) whose distance rhymes with benevolence.

" The father is not very present. We could reproach him at the start but in fact he lets them live this crazy love, a little dangerous but in love. He 's not there, but he' s not far away and they both know. He feeds the film with his presence. He admits that madness is part of our lives. ".

A tale of ordinary madness, to go see nothing but for oneself.
Personal note for Alela Diane's beautiful original soundtrack by Oh my mama .

"Tomorrow and all the other days" by Noémie Lvovsky, with herself, Luce Rodriguez, Anaïs Demoustier, Micha Lescot.