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I've loved you so long.
Posted by Steve Turner on 9 January 2011 - 8:20pm.
Last night I watched the French film I've loved you so long starring Kristin Scott Thomas. Her performance was absolutely spellbinding in what was a deeply moving film. Imprisoned for 15 years for murder the film begins with her release and slow rehabilitation back into life helped by the deep love of her sister and her initially reluctant family. The transition from her withdrawn and disengaged state to a more acceptable face of family life was portrayed very well and the final scenes brought all of the hurt and recrimination out into the open in what to me was an act of cleansing. I won't spoil the story line but it is a film worth making the effort to see.
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Ha! Got your number
First you give Vulpes a hard time about speeding laws and now you're going all gooey over Kristin Scott Thomas. You are Jezza Clarkson and I claim my five pounds...
Fantastic film
Absolutely agree with the OP. terrific film and pretty harrowing at times. KST is terrific in it. Celeb name drop op - I stood next to her at a literary party in the summer in Paris! She's very tall.
And very beautiful
I would hasten to add.
Great film
One of those where everyone sat in the cinema in silence until after the credits ended.
She was very good in Leaving this year too.
Sorry but I am a bit of a nay sayer on this
Love kst, and she is also a brilliant actress, but this film was annoying. At the end I felt cheated as the movie only works if she didn't do the obvious thing and no motive is offered as to why she didn't and chose the path she did.
If you do like French films with, ahem, not unattractive Female leads, I recommend this film Female Agents shown on BBC 4 last Monday and still available from here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00x9b4x/Female_Agents/
It is based on a real life story involving a female unit of the French Underground whose mission was to assassinate a senior German Officer before D-day. But I bet the real unit were not as fruity as Sophie and co.
I think it is available for another 24 hours
French films
As there may be some aficionados on here I am trying to get the name of a French film from a few years back.Initially starts in Paris - a married couple seem to be struggling with their relationship and the inferred extra-marital relationship that the wife may or may not be having. The couple go off on a long journey down to the South of France over a bank holiday and the relationship becomes more tense as the journey continues. Towards the end the man abandons the car and disappears only to re-appear in another town after something terrible has happened ( can't remember what). It sounds typically French I know and I certainly havent explained it well but anyone know what I am referring to? It was riveting and i have tried to locate it since but as I dont know either the title or the actors it is not much help. Was probably out around 1996/7?
It is indeed rather good
I also loved this film.
A word of caution though, for anyone zooming over to Amazon to buy a copy. Despite the fact that a large part of its impact is dervied from the way that the narrative unfolds, at least one Amazon review consists of a detailed synopsis of the plot. Why would anyone do that?
A wonderful performance by Kirstin Scott Thomas. It made me appreciate that acting is indeed a craft.
Not the only great film she was in that year
I think it was the same year as I've Loved You So Long that The Lovely Kristin Scott Thomas (to give her her full name) appeared, in a smaller but still significant role, in an absolutely superb thriller called Tell No One. Did anyone else see it? One of the best and most exciting films I've seen in years.
Yeah
That is good one...Hollywood keeps on threatening to remake Tell No One