A New Life

A French woman meets the half-sister she never knew in A NEW LIFE, a rewarding yet unnecessarily convoluted art film by Olivier Assayas.

Set in contemporary Paris, A NEW LIFE first centers around Tina (Sophie Aubry), an embittered young woman who operates a forklift in a supermarket stockroom. After work one day, Tina argues with both her hotheaded boyfriend, Fred (Philippe Torreton), and her dysfunctional mother, Nadine (Nelly Borgeaud). Later, mysteriously, she is awakened by a man named Constantin (Bernard Giraudeau), and finds herself in a plush apartment where she has passed out from a pill overdose.

Tina soon realizes that the apartment is owned by her...