In these five concatenated sequences, each begun in medias res and each resulting in the same conclusion, a woman meets a man and, each time, the encounter is their last.

Miéville’s first feature film, My Favorite Story was included in the prestigious Critic’s Week at Cannes in 1988. Entwining portraits of three women across three generations, the film examines recurring themes of solitude and the difficulty of communication. The only certainty for Miéville’s women is that there is no certitude: you simply have to speak louder if you want your voice to be heard and take your place in the order of things. The director finds her dreams in the illuminating light of nature, in apartment furnishings, in city and village streets, and on the astoundingly transparent faces of her actors. As she describes this search: “From birth to death every subject remains intact. Three ages, three women. Daughter, mother, grandmother. Each of them before and after, still and always. And the men too. Those they meet, those they love.”