Berlin: They have been together for years, their marriage is amicable and satisfying. He is successful, he is satisfied. Until one day the former appears and in an instant everything is destroyed.
The premise of “Both Sides of the Blade,” which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday, may not be entirely original, but for director Claire Dennis, her film stands apart from its adult, irreverent approach to a menage-ए-trois. and denial of segmentation fault.
“That was the angle of the film,” she said at a news conference. “We weren’t going to judge them. We weren’t going to reject them. We were with them.”
Juliette Binoche plays Sarah, an accomplished radio journalist whose life with retired rugby player Jean (Vincent Lyndon) has come to an end. He happily potters and goes shopping when he interviews the oppressed of the world for his show.
In the evening they return to their beloved flat on the rue d’Amsterdam in Paris, a welcoming place that suddenly becomes close and oppressive when François (Grégoire Colin) reappears in their lives.
As open and gentle as the sly and tangled Jeanne is, Francois is Sarah’s ex-boyfriend, and the two men are also former friends and business partners. Soon, the protagonists start quietly leaving the room to make a phone call.
Dennis stated that filming this part of the film caused psychological damage, with the crew disintegrating after filming the final line of Sarah and Jeanne.
But, according to Binoche, it’s important not to cast that sudden change as a marriage failure. Rather, she said, the film says that it needs to be accepted as a reality.
She said, “You are obsessed with her, by this person, you need to have her inside you as a woman, it becomes like such a huge need.” “There’s nothing psychological about it. It’s visceral.”
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