Emily,
whose musician partner died of an overdose in Canada, spends
six months in prison on drug charges. When she gets out, she
has one goal in mind: to get her son Jay back. He is being
raised by her parents-in-law and Emily has realized that she
has to turn her life around and come clean. This will not
be easy as few people in her life believe in her and trust
her and many think that she ruined her partner’s life.
Emily moves to Paris, quits the music scene, goes through
a methadone program, and applies for odd jobs to survive.
Little by little, despite expectations that she will fail,
Emily changes. She gains the trust of her father-in-law who
travels to Paris to meet with her and give her a second chance
at raising her son. Clean is about the rock scene and drugs,
but more importantly, about a person’s ability to change.
As Olivier Assayas explains, “I wanted to come back
to something more natural… closer to the essence of
my cinematic style that presents human relations in a more
real and heart-warming context.”
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