Advantages: Excellent performances and direction Disadvantages: Not in English language
Juliette Fontaine has just been released from prison after serving a fifteen-year sentence. Her younger sister Lea comes to take her to her own family home. Lea is married to Luc and they have two adopted Vietnamese daughters; Luc's father, who has suffered a stroke, also lives with them. How will Lea's family react to Juliette, who has to stay with them until she has a permanent job and can support herself? And how will Juliette cope with her return ... ...into contact with, who react in different ways to her crime? The nature of Juliette's crime is revealed gradually, but her reason for committing it is not evident until the end of the film. Suffice it to say that Juliette's parents denied her existence after she was sentenced, and they forbade Lea to write to or visit Juliette. Lea, however, never forgot her sister, and the bond between them forms the essence of the film. She trusts Juliette implicitly ...
denella 12.07.2009
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searing French drama about a woman who reunites with her young sister after a 15-year separation. Philippe Claudel directs a cast that also includes Elsa Zylberstein ...
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