Colours Of Time

 I think I’ve seen the best film of 2026 so far, and it’s a charming bit of French whimsy set in the present day and glorious 1890’s Paris 

Four strangers, distant cousins, are united by the fact that they and a dozen other family members have inherited a rundown country cottage earmarked to become a trendy new shopping mall. 

Benign beekeeper Guy( Vincent Mccaigne) galvanises sad executive Celine ( Julia Piaton), retiring schoolteacher Abdelkrim( Zindine Soualem) and on line artist Seb ( Abraham Walpler) into studying their family tree, mainly concentrating on 21 year old Adele ( Suzanne Lindon) and her journey to Paris to find her mother. 

Here the film gently dovetails from the family bonding of the cousins ( beautifully observed and never saccharine in its portrayal ) to Adele’s journey of discovery, where she meets her mother and ultimately her father under the strangest of circumstances. 

Every character is underplayed beautifully with Lindon and Piaton being especially impressive, and the climatic scene involving psychedelic drug taking, and Victor Hugo, has to be seen to be believed.

I loved it

A beautiful, well crafted and charming film, about family ties, growing up and history

Go and see it