Boxes (2007)
Directed by Jane Birkin

Film Synopsis

Imagine your whole life in boxes.  This is what Anna, a 50-something Englishwoman, finds when she moves into her new home on the Brittany coast.  Anna is surrounded by boxes, and as she empties each one they release a sudden surge of memories - bringing back to her people she has long lost sight of and people who remain dear to her.  The living and the dead - they are all here, somehow contained in these boxes, carefully stowed away like little parcels of time.  There are a thousand items - a thousand recollections.  Anna's whole life is here - her life as a child, her life as a young woman, and all the stages that followed.  These are the footprints of her existence, the markers on her long road through life.

Carried away on an emotional tsunami, Anna remembers her parents - how she misses them.  She recalls the three men in her life, and the child that each of them gave her.  She thought they were in the past, but they are still with her.  They speak to her, argue with her, laugh with her.  By opening all these boxes, they are brought back to her.  Suddenly, Anna has a sense of the brevity of her own existence.  So much of her life has gone by already.  How much remains to her?  Is it possible that she will discover love again?  As she unpacks her belongings and mulls over the past, Anna starts to contemplate the future and wonders what surprises life still has in store for her...