The marriage between furniture restorer Leila and artist Damien is, at its strongest, a febrile and thrillingly unpredictable thing. But passion and spontaneity starts to lose its charm when it accelerates into yet another of Damien’s spiralling bipolar episodes. Joachim Lafosse, a director who is particularly adept at teasing out the frictions and complicated dynamics in marriages in films like Our Children, After Love and Keep Going, delivers an impressively nuanced portrait of the three-way relationship between a man, a woman and his disease. 

Filmed in some particularly blissful locations in rural Luxembourg and France, and unfolding in a world filled with art and beauty, The Restless is a film which goes to great lengths to flesh out the bond between Leila and Damien and to celebrate their unconventional, Bohemian existence.