Cannes darling and Oscar-nominated director Lukas Dhont (Girl, Close) returns with an incredibly tender gay love story set against the backdrop of the Belgian front during World War I. Quiet, stoic, and ever-observant, a young soldier named Pierre (Emmanuel Macchia in a phenomenal acting debut) has very little to take his mind off of the horrors of trench warfare — until he meets the confident artist Francis (Valentin Campagne).

By 1989 acclaimed Scottish actor Ian Charleson (a sensational Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers), who had career-defining roles in Oscar-winning pictures Chariots of Fire (1981) and Gandhi (1982), yearns for his next great role. For Charleson, a gay man with AIDS, navigating Hollywood and keeping his personal life private is a minefield, and he’s drawn to the idea of revisiting his stage-actor roots. When Daniel Day Lewis abandons Richard Eyre’s (Johnny Flynn, Ripley) production of Hamlet at the National Theatre mid-performance, Charleson is poised to take over the play’s title role.