Let the Sunshine In

2017 [FRENCH]

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

19
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 33% · 142 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 33% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 8328 8.3K

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Plot summary

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

Director

Claire Denis Photo
Claire Denis

Top cast

Juliette Binoche Photo
Juliette Binoche as Isabelle
Sandrine Dumas Photo
Sandrine Dumas as Ariane
Nicolas Duvauchelle Photo
Nicolas Duvauchelle as L'acteur
Gérard Depardieu Photo
Gérard Depardieu as Denis, le voyant
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
800.5 MB
1160*720
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 2
1.51 GB
1728*1072
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by evanston_dad 6 / 10

All Hail Juliette Binoche

A rather one-note film about a frustrating character that I probably would have reviewed more harshly had it not starred the luminous Juliette Binoche.Binoche plays a woman who's fallen into a repetitive cycle of starting up love affairs -- sometimes with the wrong guy, sometimes with someone who might be a right guy -- but then bailing on them because of her own inability to open herself up emotionally. And that's the movie. There's not much of a character arc to her -- the life events that have put herwhere she is have already happened when the movie starts, and she doesn't learn much of anything about herself or her own responsibility in being lonely and miserable that suggests anything is going to change. A generous interpretation of the ending might, I suppose, hint at future happiness, but I chose, cynic that I am, to interpret it instead as yet another desperate attempt made by Binoche's character to find love that requires no effort on her part. Apparently, she thinks she can just wait patiently and it will fall from the sky into her lap."Let the Sunshine In" isn't a boring film, but it's not an especially engaging one either. You will have to find Juliette Binoche herself interesting as an actress if you're going to enjoy this film, as it's virtually a one-woman show.Grade: B
Reviewed by leftbanker-1 5 / 10

Maudlin and Histrionic, A Bit of Humor Would Have Helped

Good actors with great casting, Paris as the backdrop, but the story is a complete dud. This was a total disaster as far as the writing, a failure both in the story as well as the insipid dialogue.Being, more or less, in the age bracket of Benoche and her character, I find it a bit ridiculous that she stagnates in an adolescent passive-aggressive attitude with men. Say what you mean and mean what you say, someone once said. If you want someone, at this age you can't waste a lot of time being coy or clever.Just what she saw in the banker is beyond my ability to read what women want. Physically unattractive, arrogant and abusive with the bartender, and dismissive of her feelings point to the fact that what? She's with him for his money?I'm not saying that people my age can't find "true love" but I think we have to be rational adults while looking for it. The scene in the car and then in her apartment were both so incredibly awkward, worse than anything I suffered in my teens. Grow up! I hated both of those scenes. Thoroughly unromantic.And then they manage to somehow shoe-horn in a dialogue with Gerard Depardieu?I was forced to watch the film with inadequate English subtitles that didn't begin to translate the true sense of the French original dialogue, but my French isn't quite good enough to watch it without subtitles. I can never find French films with French subtitles which is the perfect combination for me. People learning English as a second language never have a problem finding English subtitles for English films and TV shows, so stop being so smug about the fact that you speak English.
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