Lola and the Sea

4/2/2026

“Lola”, or “Lionel” as her dad would have it, has returned home uninvited for the wake of her late mother. Bluntly, “Philippe” (Benoît Magimel) wants nothing to do with his offspring and so sends her packing. Despondent, she (Mya Boolaers) waits until he has gone out and then breaks in to take one last look around her home and also, more incidentally, acquires the urn with her mum’s ashes in it. Of course it doesn’t take long for him to realise where they are but after a tussle he agrees that she can accompany him to the familial seaside home where they can spread the ashes over the water. What now ensues sees us take a road trip with a difference with both starting out despising the other, but then beginning a realisation that neither of their entrenched positions are going to help one or