Both Sides of the Blade (2022)
(Avec amour et acharnement)
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.39:1 116m
Director: Claire Denis
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon, Grégoire Colin, Bulle Ogier
Synopsis:
A professionally fulfilled and romantically contented woman is thrown off track by the sight of her former lover, a man who left her years previously and who now proposes to work with her current partner.
Review:
One of those stories where we begin in a state of idyll on a Croatian beach and then set off on the road of baleful disintegration. Denis manages that sense of dread very well, with help from an electro-music track by Tindersticks, and Binoche convinces as a woman rubbed raw between two loves, one which makes her feel secure, another like a physical addiction which does her no good. Meanwhile, a teenage son is left increasingly disoriented by the world from inside his well-meaning grandmother's suburban home, and refuses to see his ex-con father. It is a vision of a fractured society, still in thrall to the Covid-19 outbreak, but which somehow lacks traction and risks pigeonholing Lindon as the stolid voice of misused French manhood.
(Avec amour et acharnement)
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.39:1 116m
Director: Claire Denis
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon, Grégoire Colin, Bulle Ogier
Synopsis:
A professionally fulfilled and romantically contented woman is thrown off track by the sight of her former lover, a man who left her years previously and who now proposes to work with her current partner.
Review:
One of those stories where we begin in a state of idyll on a Croatian beach and then set off on the road of baleful disintegration. Denis manages that sense of dread very well, with help from an electro-music track by Tindersticks, and Binoche convinces as a woman rubbed raw between two loves, one which makes her feel secure, another like a physical addiction which does her no good. Meanwhile, a teenage son is left increasingly disoriented by the world from inside his well-meaning grandmother's suburban home, and refuses to see his ex-con father. It is a vision of a fractured society, still in thrall to the Covid-19 outbreak, but which somehow lacks traction and risks pigeonholing Lindon as the stolid voice of misused French manhood.
(Avec amour et acharnement)
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.39:1 116m
Director: Claire Denis
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon, Grégoire Colin, Bulle Ogier
Synopsis:
A professionally fulfilled and romantically contented woman is thrown off track by the sight of her former lover, a man who left her years previously and who now proposes to work with her current partner.
Review:
One of those stories where we begin in a state of idyll on a Croatian beach and then set off on the road of baleful disintegration. Denis manages that sense of dread very well, with help from an electro-music track by Tindersticks, and Binoche convinces as a woman rubbed raw between two loves, one which makes her feel secure, another like a physical addiction which does her no good. Meanwhile, a teenage son is left increasingly disoriented by the world from inside his well-meaning grandmother's suburban home, and refuses to see his ex-con father. It is a vision of a fractured society, still in thrall to the Covid-19 outbreak, but which somehow lacks traction and risks pigeonholing Lindon as the stolid voice of misused French manhood.