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Juliette is a forty something
woman who after a long and painful separation has been taken
in by her younger sister Léa, played by Elsa Zylberstein.
When we first see Juliette, being picked up at the airport,
she wears no makeup and smokes perpetually; she has a dowdy
grey cardigan of the sort worn in girls' boarding schools,
and has clearly been institutionalised in some awful way.
The presence of Kristin Scott Thomas in this literate French
movie by Philippe Claudel is so powerfully distinctive that
it's as if Claudel has not merely written the lead role for
her, but extrapolated his film's entire narrative structure
from Scott Thomas's personality.
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