Her icy demeanor reflects a guarded self that is too wounded to risk another blow. Devoid of make-up, her gaunt and haunted look, deep set eyes and languid lids, and the high cheek bones that used to speak of beauty in her other films now form the epitome of a soul tormented. I admire that the elegant Oscar nominated actress Scott Thomas was willing to take up a role that would cast her against type, and to work under a first-time director. In our society that excels in labeling people, the writer/director leads us to ponder the questions of what constitutes a crime, who are the victims, likewise, who are the strong, the helpers, and who are those that need help? How can we truly know each other? And ultimately, what is love? The film is an exploration into the nature of good and evil, love and forgiveness. ![]() The slow unfolding of the facts thus sets the stage for the heart-wrenching performance by Scott Thomas. Like the viewers, Léa is kept in the dark as to the details of the act Juliette had done, a secret that is painfully borne by Juliette alone. But her husband Luc (Serge Hazanavicius) is apprehensive, and understandably so. She receives Juliette into her own home, a warm family with a loving husband, two adopted Vietnamese girls, and her father-in-law Papy Paul (Jean-Claude Arnaud), who has lost his ability to speak after a stroke. Now years later, Léa is teaching literature at a university, and mature enough to reconnect the tie that binds. Léa was told to ostracize Juliette, as the rest of the family did. To them, the crime she had committed was unforgivable. Léa was only a young teenager when her much older sister was disowned by their parents. She rejoins society to the embrace of her younger sister Léa (Elsa Zylberstein). Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient, 1996) plays Juliette, an older sister who has just been released on parole after 15 years in prison. In the film, the reunion of the sisters comes under the most unusual of circumstances. I’ve wanted to see the film for a while, but not until my trip to Vancouver last week did I have the chance to watch it in a theatre. It is unfortunate that festival films like this one are rarely shown in North America, except in major selective cities. ![]() Winner of the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival, I’ve Loved You So Long is the directorial debut of Philippe Claudel, French novelist, screenwriter, and professor of literature at The University of Nancy. But both Nicole Kidman and Anne Hathaway are just featherweights compared to Kristin Scott Thomas’s powerful performance here in I’ve Loved You So Long. ![]() Sisters reuniting is the storyline of several movies recently, as in Margot At The Wedding (2007) and Rachel Getting Married (2008 ). 11: I’ve Loved You So Long has just been nominated for two Golden Globes, Best Foreign Film and Best Actress (Drama) for Kristin Scott Thomas. 8 I’ve Loved You So Long has just won the BAFTA for Best Film Not In The English Lanugage tonight in London, England.ĭec. But nothing compares to the original of course.įeb. For those who don’t like to read subtitles, the DVD has an English Version with Kristin Scott Thomas voicing her own part.
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