A custody hearing after a bitter divorce sets off a slow-building nightmare for one Paris family in Xavier Legrand's Custody.
What is Jusqu'à la garde about?
Miriam Besson is fighting for sole custody of her eleven-year-old son Julien, convinced that his father is dangerous and should not be left alone with the boy. The judge hearing the case sides instead with the father, granting him shared custody and regular visitation. From that point on, Julien becomes the unwilling messenger between two parents who refuse to speak to each other directly, riding in silence on weekend handovers while sensing that his father's calm exterior could crack at any moment. What starts as an ordinary custody dispute tightens, scene by scene, into something closer to a thriller.
About the cast
Denis Ménochet and Léa Drucker play the separated parents, while young Thomas Gioria carries much of the film as their son Julien, often saying more with silence than dialogue could. Mathilde Auneveux, Mathieu Saikaly, Florence Janas, Saadia Bentaïeb and Sophie Pincemaille round out the household's wider circle of relatives and neighbours.
Context & significance
Writer-director Xavier Legrand had already explored this same family in an earlier short, and Custody extends that starting point into a full domestic drama shot mostly from inside the family's cars, apartments and hallways rather than the courtroom itself. Made in France, the film keeps its focus tight on ordinary routines — a car ride, a birthday party — and lets tension build through what is withheld rather than shown outright.
Watching Jusqu'à la garde on Ktime
Custody streams on K-Time in its original French, and watching it only requires a free account login — the page itself is open to read without signing in. K-Time's interface is built in Farsi, so Persian-speaking viewers can navigate the catalogue comfortably even when a title itself has no dub or subtitle track.