An Impossible Love

An Impossible Love follows a mother and her daughter as their bond endures through decades starting in 1958. The relationship is tested by a volatile husband whose manipulations threaten to pull them apart. Rachel, the mother, fights to protect her child while navigating a world that keeps changing around them. Chantal grows from a frail child into a woman whose own choices collide with family expectations. The story centers on the quiet strength of love kept alive by adults and kids who refuse to break, even as the past echoes into the present.

Directed by Catherine Corsini, An Impossible Love draws on Christine Angot and Laurette Polmanss for its source material and was released in 2018.

Critics praise Corsini for a restrained, intimate portrayal of the mother daughter bond as it marches from the late 1950s to today, showing how love endures amid patriarchal pressure, secrecy, and shifting social expectations.

Box office data for An Impossible Love is not widely reported, but the film did attract attention at festivals and among French audiences for its quiet, emotionally precise drama.