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I've Loved You So Long
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Kristen Scott Thomas gives a fine performance as a woman just out of prison, but the entire movie is a long, slow reveal [that] hardly feels worth the elongated, angst-anchored trip.
Robert Davis
Daily Plastic
This kind of narrative is familiar enough, and so are the risks of sentimental talk-show piety associated with it. Luckily, Ms. Scott Thomas’s furious honesty rules out easy, unearned redemption, as does the film’s tough-minded resistance to the temptations of melodrama.... A revelation comes near the end that is both tremendously moving and a bit disappointing, in the way that the solutions to great mysteries frequently are.
A.O. Scott
New York Times
Uncompromising and full of necessary enigma, Thomas’ performance makes us feel what it might be like to live out the rest of your life after you have killed your own child. So it’s a pity that, before too long, the movie starts paying out broad hints to prepare us for the warming trend and special pleading that will let both its antiheroine and its audience off the hook.
Ella Taylor
L.A. Weekly
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the U.K.
... there is too much inert time in which to anticipate the plot’s engineering. Did [French novelist Philippe] Claudel mislay his debut director’s starting manual? Isolated actions, without the life-support of a novelist’s prose, must be given a new form of life for the screen. You cannot just label characters and send them into battle. We need less indicating and more innigkeit.
Nigel Andrews
Financial Times
Scott Thomas's performance, easily the best of her career, countermands any such qualms: the centre of a deeply involving, beautifully acted and expertly constructed human drama by and for grown-ups.
Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian
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