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«Both Sides of the Blade», an intense sentimental triangle with a great cast

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«Both Sides of the Blade», an intense sentimental triangle with a great cast

A new film by Claire Denis is always an important event: «Both Sides of the Blade» is no exception, the latest film by the great French author, who returns behind the camera four years after the excellent science fiction film « High Life », with Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche.
The latter, who had already been the protagonist for Claire Denis in “Love according to Isabelle” of 2017, plays the role of Sara, a woman torn between the love for her current partner Jean and the memory of the great feeling lived in passed with François.

When the two men start working together on a new project, it will be an opportunity for Sara to meet François again and be even more uncertain about her real feelings.

Written by the director together with Christine Angot, who had signed with her the script of the aforementioned (and correlatable) “Love according to Isabelle”, “Both Sides of the Blade” is a painful sentimental drama, which shows the great ability of the director French to deal in depth with human relations.

Great actors and great soundtrack

Among the most important elements of Claire Denis’s cinema, there is undoubtedly the fundamental relationship with the musical group of the Tindersticks, capable of always bringing added value and new forms of reading to her films. song on the end credits) manages to affect, giving greater intensity and expressiveness to a film that also plays a lot with the words and with the interpretations of a cast in very form. , the moments of discussion between Sara and Jean are simply extraordinary: the credit, in addition to the script, goes to the monumental interpretations of Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon, with the latter confirming himself as one of the most relevant actors of contemporary European cinema.

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With an eye also to the pandemic and to the story of the years in which we are living, Claire Denis thus signs a film perhaps imperfect but with a very high emotional involvement, which could enter the final palmarès of the Berlin Film Festival. another feature film by the French author is released: «The Stars at Noon» starring Margaret Qualley.

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