Review: Suzanna Andler
(The article continues below - Commercial information) Adapted from a play by Marguerite Duras, the film provides Charlotte Gainsbourg with an exceptional opportunity to paint the portrait of a grand bourgeois woman who has reached a (wrenching) crossroads in her life as a wife and mother and is looking for love and a new lease of life but is held back by her own contradictions. The actress lays herself totally bare, the tiniest of shudders up for scrutiny amidst the relatively extreme minimalism of the décor and the production chosen by the director. It’s a story unfolding at a certain ...