The Golden Lion arrives in our cinemas: «Anne’s choice – L’événement», the film that won the most important prize at the last Venice Film Festival, is the great protagonist of the week at the cinema.
Directed by Audrey Diwan, the transalpine film is set in 1963 France and stars a brilliant student who appears to have a very promising future ahead of her. Her life suddenly changes when she becomes pregnant without meaning to. Anne fears that her career hopes will vanish in an instant: she will therefore try to terminate the pregnancy at any cost, even if this may mean risking prison and, above all, her own health.
Adaptation of the homonymous text by Annie Ernaux, «The choice of Anne – L’événement» is a very harsh drama about abortion, able to convey to the spectators the physical nature of the experience, with very strong and shocking scenes.
The camera glued to the protagonist
The French director’s camera remains glued to the protagonist all the time, so much so that this film also makes an interesting reflection on the theme of the female body, managing to overcome both time and gender barriers. the Dardenne brothers or, above all, the Romanian Cristian Mungiu, who with “4 months 3 weeks 2 days” had created a film that “Anne’s choice” really remembers closely.
The limit of Audrey Diwan’s film is precisely that of knowing too much already seen and of alternating sequences of great emotional impact with others that are excessively forced and less incisive. Overall, however, the film manages to involve really well also thanks to the excellent performance of the very young protagonist Anamaria Vartolomei, credible in a role that is anything but simple. to a woman, after the one obtained last year by Chloé Zhao for «Nomadland».