Originally posted @ 2:28 am, Tue 14th Oct 2008
Beautiful people, living in a beautiful house, leading a beautiful life with beautiful jobs, in a beautiful city. (“And you may ask yourself – how did I get here?” Answer - it’s the annual French movie.)
However, they take on a sister / auntie / sister-in-law with a dark secret (played by Kristin Scott Thomas) and all kinds of tensions are triggered, and then addressed.
It’s all highly watchable for a good 90 minutes or more, but you begin to wonder how such a rounded, advantaged character could have done something so dark? And the answer is, it’s just a dramatic device. (“Same as it ever was.”)