In Justine Triet’s Sibyl—starring Gaspard Ulliel, Virginie Efira and Sandra Hüller—chaos equates to delight and the ethically wrong is exhilarating. Psychoanalysis and cinema come together in a thrillingly erotic and perilous game blurring fiction and reality, dizzyingly escaping any classification.
While the American tradition of the romantic comedy has waned in recent years, Justine Triet’s portrait of a woman at a crossroads in the courtroom and bedroom proves the beloved genre is alive and well in France. A feminist revision of the romcom—proving the familiar can still be unpredictable.
A powerful portrait of the modern-day superwoman, Éric Gravel’s gripping drama brings a thriller-like tension to the struggles of the working class. Starring as a single mum braving the tides of precariousness, Laure Calamy (Call My Agent!) has us on the edge of our seats with her nervy performance.
