Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
Claire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman to catfish Alex, the roommate of her former lover, Ludo.
Who You Think I Am is a psychologically layered French drama anchored by a commanding performance from Juliette Binoche, who brings enormous credibility and nuance to a deeply complex, morally ambiguous protagonist. The catfishing premise is handled with genuine literary ambition, exploring identity, desire, aging, and self-deception through a fractured narrative structure that keeps the audience guessing. The cinematography is competent and intimate but not particularly distinctive. The plot, while engaging, occasionally struggles to fully reconcile its psychological thriller elements with its more lyrical, introspective register, and the framing device (sessions with a psychologist) is somewhat familiar territory. The ending is effective and thematically resonant but not wholly surprising given the film's trajectory. Novelty is moderate — the catfishing subject has been explored before, though this film's literary, woman-centered perspective and tonal complexity give it some distinction.