Anna Cazenave Cambet\u2019s adaptation of Constance Debr\u00e9\u2019s novel is a superbly acted and affecting \u2013 if restrained \u2013 portrait of child access and interpersonal strife<\/p>\n
Vicky Krieps gives an intelligent, finely calibrated and sensitive performance in this marital-breakdown drama from writer-director Anna Cazenave Cambet. Cambet has adapted the autobiographical novel of the same title by Constance Debr\u00e9, about her bitter experience of being denied contact with her young son after her marriage breakup \u2013 at the same time quitting her job in law and then coming out as gay, and also<\/em> becoming a writer (these things apparently held against her in France\u2019s patriarchal family courts).<\/p>\n Krieps mimics the author\u2019s elegant, close-cropped hairstyle in the film\u2019s final act, and is never anything other than excellent. But I wondered sometimes if, in the course of this slightly prolix movie, the reserve and control required from her by the material were quite doing full justice to the extraordinary 18-month ordeal of not being able to see your own child.<\/p>\n
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