The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.
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Earnest, prestige, contemplative and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Filipe Manuel Netoon TMDB · Jan 20237/10
**Pain, tragedy, mourning, mental and psychological anguish, a cathartic journey towards freedom, in a film that is not for all audiences.** It took me three tries to get through this movie in its entirety. As someone who is currently going through a very difficult grieving process, it was particularly hard for me to watch the film. It all starts with a serious car accident where the main character, July, loses her husband and daughter. She, like myself, feels a need to escape, to isolate herself from others, and she almost annuls herself by not bearing the pain and absence of her lost family. As the film is a kind of metaphor around the concept of freedom, to what extent is it liberating to have these attitudes? I sincerely do not know. As much as we run away, our pains don't stop confronting us, we never stop being who we are. In the midst of all this, the film also launches considerations on the hopes and paths of the European Union project through the troubled completion of a symphony, commissioned by the Union and left incomplete upon the death of July's husband, who was its composer. I didn't know the director Krzysztof Kieslowski, and I believe that few people will. He is on
Read the whole review on TMDB - CinemaSerfon TMDB · May 20237/10
Juliette Binoche is on fine form here as "Julie". She is driving her composer husband and their daughter along a country road when - next thing they have an encounter with a tree. Now the audience can expect this - we are shown the leaky brake fluid at the start, but we are not necessarily prepared for what is to come as she has to reconcile her own injuries and the difficulties (and opportunities) of her new life. That involves her taking herself deep into the anonymity of Paris - but she is soon to realise that her need for much desired isolation is not reciprocated by her friend who have no intention of letting her disappear under a rock. Things truly come to an head when she re-encounters old flame "Olivier" (Benoît Régent) and there might just be light at the end of her tunnel? It is quite an observational piece of work, this, and Binoche is well capable of demonstrating just how the trauma and drama of this incident and of her subsequent choices impacts on the character - a reaction that could resonate with many, I suspect. The dialogue is sparing and the pace of this rather potent depiction of grief and it's consequences moves in a measured fashion with no obvious conclusion
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Cast
- Juliette BinocheJulie
- Benoît RégentOlivier
- Florence PernelSandrine
- Charlotte VéryLucille
- Hélène VincentJournalist
- Philippe VolterReal Estate Agent
- Claude DunetonDoctor
- Hugues QuesterPatrice (Julie's Husband)
- Emmanuelle RivaMother
- Florence VignonThe Copyist
Crew
- Krzysztof KieślowskiDirector
- Krzysztof KieślowskiScreenplay
- Krzysztof PiesiewiczScreenplay
- Sławomir IdziakDirector of Photography
- Zbigniew PreisnerOriginal Music Composer
- Jacques WittaEditor
- Marin KarmitzProducer
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