'It’s a pandemic movie in which COVID-19 is never mentioned, the masks and plexiglass screens all over Paris unremarked upon,' writes film critic SeanMBurns:
The opening idyll is too good to be true. Claire Denis’ doomy romantic melodrama “Both Sides of the Blade” begins with Juliette Binoche’s Sara and her husband Jean splashing around the surf in an island paradise, making out like high schoolers who can’t keep their hands off each other.
On the surface, it seems like a pretty swank life. Sara’s the host of a popular national affairs show on public radio, while Jean is an ex-rugby player and doting house-husband who does all the shopping and chores. But cracks and fissures appear almost immediately. We soon learn he’s got a son stashed out in the suburbs — a troubled teenager living with his grandmother who at her age isn’t up to handling him.
Lindon is one of the movie’s great hunky hangdogs, and we can see how diminished Jean feels whenever he has to ask Sara for the credit card. But there’s a new business opportunity on the horizon, a sports management firm run by his old friend François . The only catch is that François is Sara’s ex, from an affair that ended a decade prior under mysterious circumstances.
Binoche has quietly and radiantly become one of the gutsiest performers of her generation, but not by gimmicks like gaining weight or ugly-ing herself up with prosthetics the way other actors do when they want to win awards. Instead, she appears blissfully unconcerned with endearing herself to an audience, playing
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