Le Skylab - 2011

Le Skylab is the only full-length movie that Julie Delpy wrote completely in French. The story takes place in July 1979 near to Saint-Malo in Brittany, in a big house where a whole big family gathered to celebrate the grandmother's birthday. The latter had six children, one of whom is called Jean. Jean and his wife Anna, Julie Delpy, are street artists. They seem to live a bohemian lifestyle with their young daughter Albertine, and to be able to talk about anything with each other.
The movie is called Skylab referring to the name of the NASA space station that orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979. In 1979, it threatened to fall on Brittany and at the time, every French channel spoke about it. It finally disintegrated by entering the atmosphere and his bits fell into the Indian Ocean.
Julie Delpy wrote this comedy, which is all about family, after her mother's death.