MILF (2018 film)

MILF is a 2018 sex comedy film directed by Axelle Laffont (in her feature directorial debut) and starring Virginie Ledoyen, Marie-Josée Croze and Laffont.^[4] The film was released in France on 2 May 2018.^[5]

MILF
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Axelle Laffont
Screenplay by	Axelle Laffont Jean-François Halin
Based on	An original screenplay by Jérôme L'hotsky Stéphane Kramer
Produced by	Julien Madon
Starring	Virginie Ledoyen Marie-Josée Croze Axelle Laffont Matthias Dandois Victor Meutelet Waël Sersoub Florence Thomassin
Cinematography	Pierre Aïm
Edited by	Clemence Samson
Music by	Ben Molinaro
Production companies	Single Man Productions StudioCanal Nexus Factory Umedia Le Labo
Distributed by	StudioCanal
Release date	2 May 2018 (2018-05-02) (France)
Running time	101 minutes
Countries	France Belgium[1]
Language	French
Box office	$1.1 million[2][3]

Premise

A trio of forty-something women who begin dating younger men while on vacation. The trio, Sonia, Cécile, and Elise, are friends who travel to the French Riviera to help Cécile prepare her vacation home to be sold.

During their vacation, they meet three men in their twenties – Julien, Paul, and Markus (a former family friend of Cécile's), who work at a local sailing club. The men are immediately interested in the women, who they have deemed "MILFs". The six of them spend a lot of time together as a summer fling; the film ends on their last day of vacation.

Cast

• Marie-Josée Croze as Sonia
• Virginie Ledoyen as Cécile
• Axelle Laffont as Elise
• Waël Sersoub as Paul
• Matthias Dandois [fr] as Julien
• Victor Meutelet as Markus
• Rémi Pedevilla as Thomas
• Florence Thomassin as Christine
• Jéromine Chasseriaud [fr] as Louise (as Jérômine Chass)
• Mitty Hazanavicius as Nina. Axelle Laffont daughter in real life.
• Pauline Bression [fr] as Maya
• Claude Attia as M. Layrac
• Anne-Marie Ponsot as Mme Layrac
• Pierre Lopez as Michel
• Robert Assolen as showman (as Bob Assolen)

Release

MILF was released in France on 2 May 2018. It earned $417,231 from 249 theaters in its opening weekend, finishing 10th. The film went on to gross $961,745 in France and a combined $174,890 from Ukraine and Russia, for a worldwide gross of $1.1 million.^[3] The film was released on Netflix in the United States in July 2020.

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 14% based on seven reviews, with an average rating of 2.9/10.^[6]