Alyson

by Naïla Guiguet

Next Step 2020

France

Feature Film

In Alyson, we return to the beat of techno parties and to the topic of families that one chooses for oneself; it is the portrait of a young woman whose excessive lifestyle doesn’t quite fit her new life as a mother. When her significant other, a DJ, suddenly abandons her, Alyson must learn to be independent. Along the way, she meets Liv, a young Brazilian refugee, with whom she redefines her relationship to love and family. 

With this project, Naïla takes mainstream storylines and makes them her own (the coming-of-age story, the portrait of youths’ struggle for stability, even rom-com) to roll out the portrait of a free, brazen young woman who does not fit the moralizing traits of mother-courage nor the so-called flippancy of youth. Instead, she offers a political, loving gesture of a generation who lives for itself, vibrant and united.