The Idea of You (2024)

The five-year separation gives Solène's daughter time to grow up and honours a promise to reconsider the relationship. That makes the reunion more than a random last-minute reversal. Yet Hayes returns as a continuing public figure, and the film leaves the renewed problem of scrutiny largely outside the frame. The final meeting is only a hopeful opening, which softens the objection, but it uses elapsed time to reassure us more than changed circumstances we can examine.