Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
In 1971, a young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader.
Catherine Corsini's period romance captures 1970s feminist Paris with warmth and authenticity, grounding its LGBT love story in the specific political and social landscape of the women's liberation movement. The performances are naturalistic and the rural-to-urban contrast is well-drawn, though the narrative arc follows a fairly conventional romantic drama structure. Cinematography evokes the era without being especially distinctive. The ending, which skips forward in time and feels somewhat abrupt, leaves the emotional resolution feeling incomplete. The film's greatest strength is its specific historical-political context fused with personal desire, but it doesn't push far enough in any single dimension to stand out dramatically from comparable French romantic dramas.