This French thriller deals with a divorced woman in her fifties, sharing custody of two kids with her ex, who drifts into an online affair with a much younger man, hiding behind a photo of someone else. But as the affair intensifies, and her longing for connection gets deeper, it becomes increasingly clear that, as she mentions at one point, “Social Media is both the shipwreck and the liferaft”.
Juliette Binoche is stunning in the lead role – frequently onscreen alone, typing and reacting to the words typed to her, we’re drawn into her obsession. There’s quite a lot of twists in the telling but none of them feel gratuitous or forced – simply a necessary next step on the path the characters have already been travelling. A deep look at how the simple human desire to connect can be twisted into pain and misery, this is polished, engrossing and heartbreaking.
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