I was engrossed by this crime mystery/procedural and learnt alot along the way about how GPs operated in France. Truly fascinating stuff. The winner of this film is its earnest structure backed by the empathic, doting performance of Adéle Haenel. I look forward to this year’s Palme D’or best picture, Anatomy of a Fall to move me (hopefully) the same way.
However, two instances in this film kind of left a bad taste in my mouth:
1. When asked by the inspector why Dr Davin goes around showing the picture of the girl in the cybercafe/around town, she implies by saying that there’s no harm in asking another African— but that orher person (we later learn) ends up being the actual sister of the victim.
2. When the victim’s sister said she felt relieved when her sister didn’t come home; so that she can keep her man to herself. She had earlier declared that her man was attracted to her sister more.
Perhaps, I’m reading too much into this film but it does strike me as strange that because this film was billed as a social drama; you’d expect to position the “social” parts of it with less odd prejudices.
I was engrossed by this crime mystery/procedural and learnt alot along the way about how GPs operated in France. Truly fascinating stuff. The winner of this film is its earnest structure backed by the empathic, doting performance of Adéle Haenel. I look forward to this year’s Palme D’or best picture, Anatomy of a Fall to move me (hopefully) the same way.
However, two instances in this film kind of left a bad taste in my mouth:
1. When asked by the inspector why Dr Davin goes around showing the picture of the girl in the cybercafe/around town, she implies by saying that there’s no harm in asking another African— but that orher person (we later learn) ends up being the actual sister of the victim.
2. When the victim’s sister said she felt relieved when her sister didn’t come home; so that she can keep her man to herself. She had earlier declared that her man was attracted to her sister more.
Perhaps, I’m reading too much into this film but it does strike me as strange that because this film was billed as a social drama; you’d expect to position the “social” parts of it with less odd prejudices.
