More Than Ever

Hélène, a woman of 33 living in Bordeaux, has built a settled life with Mathieu, her partner of many years. Their bond is tested when she is diagnosed with a rare lung condition. Through a blog she comes across, she becomes drawn to Norway, and acting on instinct she leaves Mathieu behind in France and travels alone across Europe to the north. There she hopes to find a kind of peace and to meet the blogger known as Mister, a figure she first encountered online. The journey becomes a way of measuring the strength of the love she has left at home.

Emily Atef directed and co-wrote the film with Lars Hubrich, produced by Xénia Maingot. It is the second feature in Atef's directing chronology given here, following Kill Me and preceding Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything and Call Me Queen. Vicky Krieps plays Hélène opposite Gaspard Ulliel as Matthieu, with Bjørn Floberg as Mister and supporting turns from Sophie Langevin, Valérie Bodson and Jérémy Barbier d'Hiver. Shot across Germany, Luxembourg, Norway and France, it runs 123 minutes and had a budget of about 5 million dollars.

On IMDb the film holds 6.7/10 from roughly 1,900 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.4/10 from a much smaller base of 58 votes. A critics' rating of 7.1/10 from 32 reviews places it above both audience measures.