Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (I've loved you so long)
Crit
If there's an Oscar for conveying emotion in the first tenth of a second of a film without a word, let's just go ahead and give it to Kristin Scott Thomas, whose sadness from opening shot to the end is ineffable--and rarely referenced in her few words.Fact is, though, that as perfect as Scott Thomas is as the just-out-of-prison Juliette, everyone in the cast is remarkably good, from Elsa Zylberstein as her sister Léa (who really does look like her sister sometimes) to Lise Ségur as Léa's adopted Vietnamese daughter P'tit Lys to Jean-Claude Arnaud, amazingly, expressively wordless as Léa's stricken father-in-law.
The only thing that keeps the film from being great is that the secret of Juliette's crime, when it comes, just seems a little too Lifetime-movie-ish. But that doesn't undercut the performances, which are more convincing than the denouement.
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