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Summary: Juliette was 15 years in prison. Confronted with the unexpected goodness of her younger sister Léa, who makes Juliette a part of her family, very slowly breaks up the Juliette's ice and bitterness and she carefully opens up.
I watched this because I love Kristin Scott Thomas and she made it worth watching for me. The cop-out ending, though, left me feeling that I'd just spent 2 hours on something uninteresting, and it made some behavior and backstory almost nonsensical.
"Quality" movie that I feel I should enjoy more than I do. Good actors, nicely composed images, etc. But at times it was a bit... boring? The central conflict or tension is resolved in a way that I felt was a bit of a copout, and I felt there was a video HD sharpness that I didn't enjoy (might be mistaken).
This film about Juliette, released after 15 years in prison for the murder on her son, did not really show captivating cinematography and editing, but it didn't need to. Kristin Scott Thomas as the released woman, delivered a stunning acting performance, which carries the film effortlessly. This is a great character study that raises some interesting questions with a somewhat anticlimactic ending that may not be satisfactory to some, but which I actually found more interesting because of it.
Not brilliant, relies too much on the actors, who occasionally veer into melodrama but are good for the most part. It's just very bland, direction-wise, but the writing is good. I dunno, I'm a bit ambivalent, it only grabbed me a couple of times. And the music is awful.
It might take you some time to get sucked into the film, but once you are really in it (and you WILL, certainly at the end), you can only feel Juliette's pain... and afterwards, marvel at the tremendous work by both women and the director. It's not the happy French masterpiece that Amelie was, but it IS a brilliant film nonetheless...
The main character is really intriguing and her development as a character makes this film interesting. Of course this is helped by Kristen Scott Thomas' fantastic performance. The music really helps the film, the direction is pretty darn good and though at times the script can go a bit messy for the most part it is both charmingly witty and highly moving. And then the ending ruins all of this destroying the down to earth and natural feel with something really quite implausible.
I couldn't help but compare it to the other recent movie on very similar subject - 'Rachel Getting Married'. What i disliked in former was, in my opinion, unnatural emotional responses to trivial matters. With help of great acting of Thomas every emotion in this film looks real and understandable. A downside is that the film is very slow, sometimes too slow for my taste. I also disliked cinematography and editing, because film feels like a drama made for TV. Worth seeing because of the acting.
Powerful characters, but very slow, and somewhat anticlimactic. We invest all this time into trying to understand her character, but eventually her actions turn out to be somewhat tame. Still interesting, but not very brave on the film makers part. Why portray her as something she isn't, wouldn't it have been better if the actions were black as hell rather than merely gray?
The first film of French novelist Claudel, about a genteel parolee who moves in temporarily with her younger sister and in-laws, is leisurely, patient, closely observed, committedly acted (Thomas, with dark circles around her eyes, and Zylberstein), drably photographed, and passably absorbing, at least until it dissipates into heart-tugging hokery.
This film about Juliette, released after 15 years in prison for the murder on her son, did not really show captivating cinematography and editing, but it didn't need to. Kristin Scott Thomas as the released woman, delivered a stunning acting performance, which carries the film effortlessly. This is a great character study that raises some interesting questions with a somewhat anticlimactic ending that may not be satisfactory to some, but which I actually found more interesting because of it.
I agree with those who say that the ending is somewhat anti-climactic, but I found the film moving; wonderfully acted, especially by Scott Thomas and Zylberstein.
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