Madeleine Collins
(8/10)
by Tony Medley
113 minutes
NR
There have been movies before about people living
double sexual lives with lovers in different cities, but they are always
men. In this one, though, it's a woman, Judith/Margot (Virginie Efira in
a sparkling performance) doing the splitting. In Switzerland she is
Margot and lives with Abdel (Quim Gutierrez) and the little girl they
are raising. In France, she is Judith and lives with famous orchestra
conductor Melvil (Bruno Salomone) and their two older boys.
While in Switzerland she is a translator who has to
travel a lot, explaining the time that she spends in France.
Of course, she lies constantly and as time
progresses and she gets deeper and deeper into the mess, it becomes a
thriller as she tries to hold her two lives together. As if that weren’t
enough, she also gets involved with a forger on whom she uses her charm
to manipulate. This is clearly a woman with a lot of problems, all of
her own making.
Brilliantly directed by Antoine Barraud, this is a
compelling tale that tracks her impossibly complex life as it slowly
falls off the rails. In French.
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