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An Impossible Love

Un amour impossible

2018

Catherine Corsini

Virginie Efira, Niels Schneider, Jehnny Beth, Iliana Zabeth ...

6.4

898

Romance. Drama At the end of 50 years in Châteauroux, Rachel, a modest office worker, meets Philippe, a brilliant young man born to a bourgeois family. From this brief but passionate connection is born a small daughter, Chantal. Philippe refuses to marry outside of his social class and Rachel has to raise their daughter alone. Regardless, for it Chantal is her great happiness, it is why she fights for that to default of the raise, Philippe gives her ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"An intimate, well-played if overstretched family saga (...) It’s as if Corsini felt the need to cross every t and dot every i, rather than letting the viewer do some of the work."	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[A] brilliantly dark and tender family drama (...) [Efira] gives a superbly intelligent and sympathetic performance as Rachel (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"This is the most accomplished and ambitious film to date from a director who has frequently explored female themes from a committed gender-politics perspective"	POS
United Kingdom	Edward Porter The Times	"The movie is plausible, tender and vibrant. Efira is excellent as a woman who habitually suffers in silence (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
	Fabien Lemercier Cineuropa	"[It dissects] the strong grip of a perverse manipulator on a woman, blindly in love, against a backdrop of social class rejection"	POS

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