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- 2018
- Not Rated
- Sundance Selects
- 1 h 34 m
- 2018
- Not Rated
- Sundance Selects
- 1 h 34 m
Summary Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love at last.
Directed By: Claire Denis
Written By: Christine Angot, Roland Barthes, Claire Denis
- 2018
- Not Rated
- Sundance Selects
- 1 h 34 m
- 2018
- Not Rated
- Sundance Selects
- 1 h 34 m
Let the Sunshine In
79
6.0
Where to Watch
Summary Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love at last.
Directed By: Claire Denis
Written By: Christine Angot, Roland Barthes, Claire Denis
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
79
88% Positive
29 Reviews
29 Reviews
12% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
79
88% Positive
29 Reviews
29 Reviews
12% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Denis and her writing partner, the novelist and playwright Christine Angot, have woven a sublime comedy of sexual indecision. They mine Isabelle's affairs for humor as well as heartache, and do it with such delicacy that you may be hard-pressed to tell which is which.
Let the Sunshine In is a unique, spellbinding work, worthy of comparison to Denis’s best films.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 33 User Ratings
6.0
52% Positive
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
21% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
27% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 33 User Ratings
6.0
52% Positive
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
21% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
27% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
Easily the best foreign film of the year (and one of the best of all time), this film gives a suggestive, elegant script and a perfect performance from Juliette Binoche room to breathe - and it's a refreshing breath of air.
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The film itself isn’t dorky in the least. It’s an elegant and witty rumination on one woman’s quest for romantic fire.
The film slowly but surely works its charms, painting a rich, emotionally complex portrait of a woman who, like Denis herself, will not let herself be boxed in.
Plays a little like “Sex and the City” as reconceived by a Minimalist composer. That makes the movie sound like a threat, when actually it’s a dry, lightly sad, and very French comedy of romantic neurosis, brought to us by two great artists, director Claire Denis (“Chocolat,” “Beau Travail,” “White Material”) and star Juliette Binoche.
Perhaps it’s best to approach Let The Sunshine In as a talky palate-cleanser before Denis’ next big genre experiment, the forthcoming sci-fi movie "High Life." In space, one hopes, nobody can hear you blather.
All in, the film is an unprecedented misfire for Denis.
Although this film is a romantic drama with comedy overtones its quality separates it from many other films that fall into that category, especially so many dumb American romantic comedies.
Let the Sunshine In is a film with a simple and practical history, but it's the good work of its director and also of its protagonist; Juliette Binoche who since Clouds of Sils Maria has had a good run with the exception of the forgettable ''The 33'', which puts it on a higher scale.
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This Claire Denis movie is surely a work of art, but it fails to entertain. The cinematography is so good. But the film, though it is only around 90 minutes, drags terribly.
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sexually incontinent men interact with emotionally & sexually incontinent woman peppered with oblique strings of words that attempt to pass for conversation. watching expressions flit across juliette binoche's face is actually mesmerizing for up to maybe 30 minutes, so i didn't tank my score.
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Warning! This is a very French film, meaning lots of talk and a dash of sex. Juliette Binoche plays an artist (although it doesn't really matter) who runs thru several men trying to find a connection. As is typical, she's lovely and sexy, while most of the men are neither. There's lots of dialogue about life and love, but it's just a painful exercise in human observation. The only interesting thing is that the closing credits run over the last scene, which at least makes the whole affair a bit shorter. In French with subtitles.
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If you dislike French culture this movie will confirm your taste. 1/2 way through my friend said "Every person in this movie is an a-hole" and I had to agree. Binoche plays a 50 yr old who is emotionally 15-- & her idiocy makes the entire movie feel fake (how can an artist and older woman be this stupid about men?!?)
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Production Company
Curiosa Films,
FD Production,
Playtime,
Ad Vitam Production,
Versus Production,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
Orange Cinéma Séries,
Cinémage 10,
La Banque Postale Image 10,
Arte/Cofinova 11,
Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge
Release Date Apr 27, 2018
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating Not Rated
Awards
International Cinephile Society Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Munich Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
