I've Loved You So Long (2008)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 123
Fresh: 108 | Rotten: 15
I've Loved You So Long is a sublimely acted family drama as well as a noteworthy directorial debut from Phillipe Claudel.
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 37 | Rotten: 2
I've Loved You So Long is a sublimely acted family drama as well as a noteworthy directorial debut from Phillipe Claudel.
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Their relationship fractured when older sister Juliette is sentenced to 15 years in prison, two siblings wage an emotional battle to rebuild their relationship, overcome the secrets that keep them apart, and finally express the thoughts that have lain dormant for well over a decade. The moment Juliette was convicted, her parents declared that they wanted nothing to do with her. Now, after 15 years behind bars, Juliette is a free woman and in desperate need of a human connection. When Juliette's
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Cast
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Kristin Scott Thomas
Juliette Fontaine -
Elsa Zylberstein
Lea -
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Laurent Grevill
Michel -
Frederic Pierrot
Captain Faure -
Lise Segur
young Lys -
Jean-Claude Arnaud
Papy Paul -
Mouss Zouheyri
Samir -
Souad Mouchrik
Kaisha -
Catherine Hosmalin
integration counselor -
Claire Johnston
Juliette and Lea's moth... -
Olivier Cruveiller
Gerard -
Nicole Dubois
hospital doctor -
Patrick Bordes
Patrick -
Alain Buron
Francois
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In a few moments the British actress, playing a haunted woman named Juliette, will begin speaking French, but in these moments her face reveals more than any dialogue.
Top CriticIn a profession that routinely casts aside leading ladies when they hit 40, it's a shame a great one had to take her act to France to remind us that actors, like wines, only improve with age.
This is a thriller, though, in the sense that it is a thrill to watch Scott-Thomas give one of the finest performances of the year.
Despite its flaws, the movie pulls you in with its squarely realistic setting and subdued performances. Best of all is Thomas.
[The] final twist undoes the film to some degree, [but] it cannot undo Scott Thomas's performance, one of the marvels of this, or any, cinematic year.
Utterly absorbing.
Kristin Scott Thomas seems to want to move things in a ( ... )more challenging direction, but I've Loved You So Long is too polite, too bent on being emotionally accessible, to follow her.
Un relato sensible y sutil sobre la reconstrucción de un vínculo interrumpido traumáticamente. Más que atendible debut en la dirección del escritor Philippe Claudel, con estupendas actuaciones de sus protagonistas femeninas.
Too predictable.
The well-drawn, intriguing characters and vividly realistic situations make for an interesting story that holds your attention. The conversations are natural and succinct.
Philippe Claudel's "I've Loved You So Long" finds Kristen Scott Thomas giving one of last year's best performances in one of last year's better films.
The last-act revelation leaves the audience off the hook in a way that's more common for a soothing Hollywood picture than this sort of challenging French import.
In the hands of Kristin Scott Thomas it becomes the story of one woman's struggle with the events of her life...
Remarkable directorial debut of French novelist Claudel.
Madeline Goes to Prison tops Madea Goes to Jail
Extras on the disc are limited to a set of deleted scenes (with commentary by writer/ director Philippe Claudel as an option), plus trailers for this and other movies.
Reminds us of how truly brilliant filmmaking needs none of the technology and bombast Hollywood has come to depend on.
Don't let the Harlequin Romance title fool you.
Claudel has made a very special kind of star vehicle -- the kind that's also a very good movie overall.
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Foreign Titles
- So viele jahre liebe ich dich (DE)
- I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) (UK)
