I've Loved You So Long

This film has had a remarkable performance in London, it has been showing in cinemas in London since September and is still bringing decent crowds, it has left the cinema that I work in, returned, left again, and still people ask about it, it seems to be jumping around from cinema to cinema as well, as if the people who couldn’t make it to Mayfair can catch it at the Odeon in Covent Garden, or at the Apollo on Piccadilly, or the Odeon on Panton Street, depending on the week, considering that it has recently gotten the Golden Globe nomination and seems likely to get the nod from Oscars I decided I must finally see what all the fuss is about, certainly the fuss is justified, never have I seen a film that can make you so much like and identify with a character that you know was charged for child murder, it owes a lot to the nuanced and quite performance from Kristin Scott Thomas, she won’t talk about the murder but we know the guilt conflicting with a growing hope for redemption that she carries, it is also owed greatly to the fantastic screenplay by Philippe Claudel, it is a film made up of small glimpses, the short scenes between Thomas and her on-screen family members, so very brief but these are the small moments that compound to the warming up of the protagonist as she readjusts to normal life, glimpses that will warm the heart, most obviously the song the two sisters play, it is his debut as a director but it certainly doesn’t show, and I have the feeling he would be making many debut filmmakers deeply envious right now, especially in France.