Search: Starring Virginie Efira

Hamaguchi’s most pointed provocation is not that the nursing home becomes excessive in its care, but that ordinary neglect has trained us to see basic tenderness as excess.

All To Play For questions much and wagers on love and sunshine.

The interplay of the spiritual and the sensual is vital here.

Question: how can attractive women fall for someone as dull and useless as Clement? Answer: who knows.

Huppert's outstanding performance embraces with unswerving delicacy the controversial decisions she faces.

I like that this film includes a good deal of interesting, amusing gender role reversal

The juxtaposition of showing a woman who so carefully and artfully constructs every aspect of her life with the totally natural performances of the children, especially little Ninon, adds great dimension.

As richly drawn as it is delicately handled.

The combination of Efira and Magimel proves magnetic.

The training sessions begin to pall - for the audience as much for the participants - but once the action moves to Norway, the pace and the scenery pick up considerably.