En kvinnas liv

Une vie

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

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

...gorgeous, compelling period drama

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

... 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...