Dans la cour

• Drama
• Comedy

Antoine is a musician. The forties, he suddenly decides to end his career. After a few days of wandering, he gets a job as a janitor. Mathilde lives in the old building in the east of Paris where he takes office. This is a young retiree, generous and involved, who divides his time between his associational activities and the life of the condominium. One night, she discovers a disturbing crack on the wall of his living room. Gradually, his anxiety grew to turn into panic and if the building collapsed ... Slowly, Antoine befriends the woman he feared to see slip into madness. Between slips and concerns, both form an awkward tandem, humorous and solidarity which will, perhaps, through this bad patch.

In the Courtyard is a 2014 French drama-comedy following Antoine, a musician-turned-janitor, and Mathilde, a anxious retiree living in a deteriorating Paris apartment building. As Mathilde's worry over a growing crack in her wall spirals into panic, an unlikely friendship forms between the two characters. The film explores how human connection can provide solace during life's uncertainties.

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