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This is the farm where Thomas was born. This is his family. His brother, who won’t be coming back, his mother, who is going down the same road, and his father, who has always stood aloof. Thomas gets back to everything he ran away from twelve years ago. Only today, there is Alex, his six-year-old nephew, and Mona, the boy’s radiant mother. Freely adapted from Serge Joncour's "L'amour sans le faire", "Revenir" is a luminous film carried by the performances of Adèle Exarchopoulos and Niels Schneider. "The film's strength lies in its play on contrasts: a sunny light that opposes the harshness of the subject matter, a very realistic social grounding (fueled by the crisis in the agricultural world) that serves as fertile ground for genuine lyricism." (Philippe Rouyer in Positif).