Both Sides of the Blade
The French director Claire Denis completes a trilogy of top-tier Juliette Binoche movies with a deceptively knotty tale of middle-aged love gone awry. Binoche is the protagonist Sara, the host of a politically conscientious radio show who, as the movie begins, seems to have it all. However, cracks in her marriage soon appear and escalate when Sara randomly spots her ex-boyfriend François (Grégoire Colin) . It’s a biographical mystery that suggests the crimes of the past are never erased and the bourgeois façade of red wine, chit-chat and summer tans is no match for the primal drives that lurk within. In cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema from Sep 9
Kevin Maher
All Creatures Great and Small
This joyous reboot of
