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Villa Amalia (2009)
Director: Benoît Jacquot
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From Time Out Film Guide
Jacquot’s fifth collaboration with Huppert begins almost in noir thriller mode – her nighttime drive to check out marital infidelity – and for the fillm’s first half, it at least sustains a degree of taut mystery abd suspense as it charts her musician-composer’s attempts to negotiate with hubby Beauvois and her growing closeness to old pal Anglade, Then things turn more existential, allegorical and, it should be said, unfocussed. Huppert, of course, does the increasingly problematic script justice; the camerawork weighs in, too. But by the end the film feels far too metaphorical, and fails to convince on the most immediate level.Author: Geoff Andrew
Cast & crew
Director: Benoît Jacquot
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Xavier Beauvois
Genre(s): Drama
Duration: 97 mins
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