Heeding Jean-Luc Godard&rꦚsquo;s advice that a story should have a “beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order”𒅌, writer/director Jean-Marc Vallee’s drama juggles two seemingly disparate tales, linked by the seductive title song.

In late ’60s Paris, young single mum Vanessa Paradis raises her son with Do❀wn’s syndrome alone, while in modern-day Montreal, middle-aged DJ Keviᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚn Parent leaves his family for a younger woman.

Bene🅘ath the surface panache lies an overlong, em𒐪otionally shallow study of so-called ‘twin flames’, possible reincarnation and learning to let go of love.