![]() ![]() But life is not a star vehicle, and the script is frank and perceptive about the cloak of invisibility that, past a certain age, even the most charismatic women take on in the eyes of many men.Īlready insecure about ageing, Claire remains principally attracted to younger guys after all, if her ex-husband (Charles Berling) could leave her for a woman young enough to be her daughter, why can’t she play the same field? Claire confesses this and more to her quietly quizzical psychoanalyst Dr. On the, er, face of it, it’s initially hard to imagine how perma-radiant Juliette Binoche - as opposed to her character, fiftyish literature professor and mother-of-two Claire - might have trouble holding male interest in the revolving Parisian dating scene. Here’s a star vehicle that knows where the money is. Well, the screenplay and his leading lady’s endlessly expressive, emotive face - to which Gilles Porte’s silky lensing tends to besottedly cede most of the frame. That said, his unobtrusively polished direction plays it cool, leaving the showmanship largely to the screenplay, adapted from a 2016 novel by Camille Laurens. It’s certainly a diagonal step up for Nebbou, whose more workmanlike previous features weren’t this breezily eccentric. Premiering in the Berlinale’s often inauspicious Special program - it might have made an offbeat Competition entry, if not for Binoche’s stint as this year’s jury president - “Who You Think I Am” is a surprise package that plays its trump cards with shrugging insouciance, yielding giggles and gasps in equal measure, sometimes at once.
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