A delightful evening helped celebrate ‘Only What We Carry’ during Tribeca Festival at Maison MARC-ANTOINE BARROIS.
Among those in attendance on June 5 were cast members Simon Pegg, Sofia Boutella, Lizzy McAlpine and Liam Hellmann, alongside writer-director Jamie Adams. The evening also welcomed a distinguished group of guests including singer and actress Tina Win, actress and activist Briana Evigan, Emmy Award-winning dancer and television personality Derek Hough, filmmaker Fernando Ferro, and restaurateur and actor Emilio Vitolo, further underscoring the event’s intersection of cinema, fashion, music and culture.
Directed by acclaimed Welsh filmmaker Jamie Adams, the film holds his signature improvisation-led approach to storytelling, favoring emotional immediacy and raw authenticity. Inspired by the cinematic language of Eric Rohmer and Hong Sang-soo, Adams brought together an international ensemble for a story shaped by intimacy, instinct and the fragile beauty of human connection.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 05: (L-R) Tina Win and Zach Macecsko attend as Marc-Antoine Barrois Hosts the “Only What We Carry” Tribeca Festival Party on June 05, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Stephanie Augello/Getty Images)
Set against the windswept coast of Normandy, Only What We Carry is a poignant meditation on love, loss and the quiet courage it takes to move forward. The film stars Simon Pegg and Sofia Boutella, alongside Quentin Tarantino, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Liam Hellmann and Lizzy McAlpine, who made her feature film debut. Pegg portrays Julian Johns, a once-formidable instructor whose former student, Charlotte Levant, played by Boutella, returns home to confront the ghosts of her past. As old relationships resurfaced and long-buried truths came into view, the film explored the memories, attachments and unfinished emotions that remain with us.
“This film was born from the freedom of independent cinema and the dream of making something intimate, alive and deeply human on the Normandy coast,” said Adams. “To share it in New York in a space so attuned to memory, emotion and craft feels like a beautiful extension of the spirit in which we made the film.”
The invitation-only exclusive evening at Maison’s SoHo address, 120 Wooster Street, celebrated the film in the presence of members of the cast and creative team, bringing together cinema, fragrance, fashion and the emotional architecture of memory inside the Maison’s new New York home. The New York event was executive produced by designer Marc-Antoine Barrois, whose own creative universe is deeply connected to the idea of memory: the memories contained in materials, gestures, places and scent. That resonance gave the evening its central theme.
In Only What We Carry, memory became emotional terrain; in the world of MARC-ANTOINE BARROIS, memory became material, transformed through couture, fragrance and atmosphere. The connection was especially present in B683, the Maison’s first perfume, created in 2016 with perfumer Quentin Bisch. With its refined composition of spice, leather, violet leaf, sandalwood, patchouli and oak moss, B683 evoked the intimate power of remembered textures and places: the scent of leather, wood, warmth and personal history.
“’Only What We Carry’ is a film about the traces we keep: the people, places, silences and emotions that continue to shape us. That idea speaks deeply to my values, where each creation begins with memory, material and feeling,” ” said Marc-Antoine Barrois. “To welcome this film into our New York home is to celebrate cinema as another way of carrying memory.”
