Ein Leben

Stéphane Brizés film träffar oss mitt i solar plexus, den kommer från ingenstans och lämnar oss ingen ro.

...gorgeous, compelling period drama

Stephane Brizé’s decade-spanning epic is a sensitively performed, memorably fragmentary look at one woman undone by the feckless men in her life.

... a very particular experience, told with consistency and without a whit of compromise. It’s not always exciting, but there’s something tremendously rewarding (and very sad) about the matter-of-factness of it all...

The camera focuses on the behaviour of the characters, which it captures in all its fleetingness...