In Your Hands (2010)
(Contre toi)
Country: FR
Technical: col 81m
Director: Lola Doillon
Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Pio Marmaï, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey
Synopsis:
A egocentric surgeon is kidnapped and imprisoned by a man, in anger at the death of his wife during an obstetric procedure. Initial hostilities over, they move gradually towards intimacy.
Review:
An exploration of the loss and reassertion of control by an individual grown accustomed to her self-sufficient existence. She at first embraces the possibility of sharing something with this stranger, until it becomes clear that she can only do so under circumstances similar to those of her incarceration. This is an offbeat and impressively nuanced piece of drama, though for all its enforced exclusivity of focus on the two characters we do not get that much closer to seeing inside them, a feature of French films generally - except Rohmer?
(Contre toi)
Country: FR
Technical: col 81m
Director: Lola Doillon
Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Pio Marmaï, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey
Synopsis:
A egocentric surgeon is kidnapped and imprisoned by a man, in anger at the death of his wife during an obstetric procedure. Initial hostilities over, they move gradually towards intimacy.
Review:
An exploration of the loss and reassertion of control by an individual grown accustomed to her self-sufficient existence. She at first embraces the possibility of sharing something with this stranger, until it becomes clear that she can only do so under circumstances similar to those of her incarceration. This is an offbeat and impressively nuanced piece of drama, though for all its enforced exclusivity of focus on the two characters we do not get that much closer to seeing inside them, a feature of French films generally - except Rohmer?
(Contre toi)
Country: FR
Technical: col 81m
Director: Lola Doillon
Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Pio Marmaï, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey
Synopsis:
A egocentric surgeon is kidnapped and imprisoned by a man, in anger at the death of his wife during an obstetric procedure. Initial hostilities over, they move gradually towards intimacy.
Review:
An exploration of the loss and reassertion of control by an individual grown accustomed to her self-sufficient existence. She at first embraces the possibility of sharing something with this stranger, until it becomes clear that she can only do so under circumstances similar to those of her incarceration. This is an offbeat and impressively nuanced piece of drama, though for all its enforced exclusivity of focus on the two characters we do not get that much closer to seeing inside them, a feature of French films generally - except Rohmer?