Let the Sunshine In

MOVIE #1,379 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 02.16.24 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙲𝙻𝙰𝙸𝚁𝙴 𝙳𝙴𝙽𝙸𝚂 (𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚑: [selin sjama];) 𝙳𝙸𝚁𝙴𝙲𝚃𝙾𝚁 𝙵𝙾𝙲𝚄𝚂 This isn't necessarily a bad movie but it's the first film of her's that comes that comes the closest, at the very least. I didn’t like it. I think when Etta James’s “At Last” plays is what did me in. I feel like these characters aren't just unlikeable but unknowable, which is much worse. The latter can be forgiven easily, and in some instances it's a plus if not the point. But this is lazy and uninteresting. I knew Denis’s late style is not thought highly of by some but I was looking forward to giving it a shot, especially because of how great Bastards was, and how interesting High Life is.

Gérard Depardieu and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi just show up randomly with 15 minutes left. The final conversation between Gerard and star Juliete Binoche plays out so endlessly — the last of what felt like dozens of talky, boring two-handers — that the full credits are displayed over it (which actually felt like some nice, probably intentional, commentary on the proceedings).

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Let the Sunshine In (French: Un beau soleil intérieur), or Bright Sunshine In, is a 2017 French romantic drama film directed by Claire Denis. The film is an adaptation of Roland Barthes's 1977 text A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (French: Fragments d’un discours amoureux). Novelist Christine Angot and frequent Denis collaborator Jean-Pol Fargeau have both been reported as Denis's co-writers on the project. It opened the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes, it won the SACD Award.It was released on May 18, 2017.