Actress and filmmaker Sophie Letourneur (b. 1978) crafts an irreverent, unpolished style of cinema — one that Portuguese audiences only encountered this year with the release of L'Aventura, which follows a French family’s trip to Sardinia and serves as a universal chronicle of summer vacations. Experimenting with variations of intimate comedy in each of her films, this French director’s body of work can now be discovered in all its splendor, starting with Voyages en Italie (2023), the first installment in the trilogy that includes L'Aventura (with a third film already announced). From her portrayal of youth in La Vie au ranch (2009) to the absurd, playful take on pregnancy in Énorme (2019), Sophie Letourneur is a name to note and follow.