Claire Denis’ film has hold of an interesting but under-examined subject: the passions of a middle-aged woman. It’s an oblique and rarefied outing, part character study, part social comedy, and dialogue whose self-absorption can sound almost like a parody of French cinema … yet it has brio and spikiness and a sensational lead performance from Juliette Binoche as a woman blown every which way by the unpredictable gusts of romance.
18 April 2018, The Tablet
Juliette Binoche is sensational in Claire Denis' Let the Sunshine in
Binoche pushes beyond merely vulnerable towards the heartbreaking
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