Let the Sunshine In
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.
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- Cast:
- Juliette Binoche , Xavier Beauvois , Philippe Katerine , Josiane Balasko , Sandrine Dumas , Nicolas Duvauchelle , Alex Descas
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I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
Best movie ever!
It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
I love Juliette Binoche, so I took a chance on this movie. Hated it. The script seems like it was made up just before they started shooting. Nothing engaging about any of it. Juliette's talents are wasted. I finally left after about an hour into it and that was at least fifty minutes too late. The characters are poorly written and lack any appeal. The story is weak and mundane. Don't waste your time or money.
I hadn't seen a preview or even read a precis before going, but I generally like French movies, so I went. I didn't know what to make of it -- at the beginning I thought it was a drama, but then the scenes got absurdly exaggerated, and I decided it must be a comedy that the language barrier kept me from finding funny. So I was surprised to learn from the reviews here that it was not a comedy! I still don't know what to make of it. So, my advice is, if you have to pay money to see this and you don't speak fluent French, don't bother (in my case, I have a theater membership that allows me pretty much unlimited movies, so I do tend to take chances).
I found this pretty interminable and ultimately inconsequential. Quite a self indulgent exercise.
Claire Denis' "Let the Sun Shine In" is an exhausting and overwhelming experience, as is the choreography of romance and life it is set in. In the world of tinder, it's all 1s and 0s, but real life these days is much less binary and less immediately satisfying. You won't find that kind of easy romcom satisfaction in Denis' film. One is buffeted by indecision, imprecision, and inaction while swimming in self doubt and self loathing. Isabelle, our stand-in for the duration, is emotionally exhausting. She asks a lot of her lovers and of the audience. She says "stay with me, stay," and Denis uses Juliette Binoche to maximum seductive affect but it's not an easy journey. Isabelle is, by turns, a strong woman with a lot to offer and who knows what she wants, but also a weak human being filled with doubt. She's a paradox and a contradiction, but she also understands without acknowledging that she will always have opportunities...another opportunity. She is someone who is exploring the boundaries of her self. It's perplexing territory to the men she meets but also to herself. Denis shows us as many facets of Isabelle as we are willing to see, that we can see. I think there's a lot more there than I could see at one sitting. A unique portrait. Her best film since "White Material." I'd love to talk to her about it!