DIRECTOR: Claire Denis
PRODUCER: Olivier Delbosc
SCREENPLAY: Claire Denis, Christine Angot
PHOTOGRAPHY: Agnès Godard
EDITOR: Guy Lecorne
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Arnaud de Moleron
COSTUME DESIGNER: Judy Shrewsbury
MUSIC: Stuart A. Staples
WITH: Juliette Binoche (Isabelle), Xavier Beauvois (the banker), Philippe Katerine (Mathieu), Josiane Balasko (Maxime), Sandrine Dumas (the friend), Nicolas Duvauchelle (the actor), Alex Descas (Marc), Laurent Grévill (François), Bruno Podalydès (Fabrice), Paul Blain (Sylvain), Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi (the woman in the car), Gérard Depardieu (the fortune-teller)

FESTIVALS: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2017

REVIEW

A mercurial Juliette Binoche absorbs our attention through every moment of this unexpected foray into romantic dramedy by the great French director Claire Denis. This is comedy in a specifically French literary mode, written by Denis in collaboration with the novelist and playwright Christine Angot. A leading light of the ‘autofiction’ movement, Angot is famous for the frankness with which she has placed her own emotional life on the printed page.
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Binoche plays the Angot surrogate, Isabelle, a Parisian artist, recently divorced from the father of her ten-year-old daughter. Alone and unleashed, she is undaunted in her yearning to connect sexually and romantically with a succession of men who, one way or another, come on to her. (Every actor in a Denis film leaves their mark, and each of Isabelle’s suitors carries his own peculiar brand of self-importance.)

“Binoche has gone from strength to strength in recent years; still, if she has ever been more radiant or effortlessly expressive on screen than she is here, the example is not immediately coming to mind. And Denis, whose narratives can be daringly free-associative, has structured Let the Sunshine In elegantly and intuitively, as a series of richly human encounters that flow, meander and pulse with life.”

​ — Justin Chang, LA Times 

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