Sam Woolf’s Top 10 Films Of 2015

9) Keeper

I’m bending the rules a bit here, as the French teen drama Keeper only played a handful of festivals in 2015, and doesn’t appear to have a distribution deal just yet. However, Guillaume Senez’s modest but lyrical debut is worth drawing the foul for.

A teenage pregnancy story that treats all parties involved with understanding and gentle affection, Keeper’s tremendous young leads deftly carry the heavy subject matter with buoyant, believable naiveté. The slice-of-life humanism of Senez’s unvarnished characters, and Dardennian direction mask the precision of Keeper’s symmetries: moments echo each other so purposefully that you could bisect the film as neatly as a soccer pitch. Seek it out, should you get the chance.