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It has become a hallmark of so-called "avant-garde filmmaking" to feature ambiguity and vague or incomplete story arcs. This is not art; it is lazy writing.
Though the various synopses for this film concentrate on the Maria Enders character, played by Juliette Binoche, returning to the play which began her career after 20 years, but in the role of the older woman who is driven to kill herself (but maybe not?) by the predatory younger woman who became her lover (the role Enders originally played), the film is more about the relationship between Enders and her assistant, Val, played by Kristen Stewart. And then, all of a sudden, it's not. I cannot say more without spoilers, but there are more than one unresolved situations in the film, which felt to me like the screenwriter couldn't figure out how to resolve things, so they just ended it.
Not clever, not art - just lazy.
score 5/10
gkmcc 11 March 2018
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw4087602/ |
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