Dated, aging movie which shows style over substance

Rating: 5/10 (6 April 2018)

A 6/10 only because of the color work, however the rest of it has visually aged - overlong pointless shots, overly insistent blaring "sad" music, blacking out of the screen - supposed to represent the emotional state, however when you have a unemotional dummy of the caliber of Binoche, who could win a contest for the female equivalent of "best show of emotions" since Steven Segal and Keanu Reeves, then not even blacking out of the screen can save you.
Overal - an unreal imaginary story - seriously - giving away your house to your husband's mistress just because she has a child, in France - sorry, but french people are accountants and engineers - they would kill themselves before they give so much as a pence to a person who has, especially by the tacit French morality, no claim whatsoever on that money - set in unreal imaginary France ,going as far as to swim out of lanes in a public pool - we get it, Mr. Director, Julie is a "rebel" who arranges her own life, in the face of nonexistent social opposition to her rearranging the said life, who refuses convention, by being conventionally rebelious, but NO swimming pool in Paris will allow you to swim like that - you'll get ejected and banned for life.
Also in immediately selling and throwing away all the deceased's possessions she, and thus the director, is following the convention of "healthy grieving"- that is the absence of grieving of the 90ies to the tee. So much for the rebeliousness!
Second - I have an issue with Julie being sad because her husband died - that is no mention of her (presumably) child, while hers being a clearly dysfunctional family clearly on the road to divorce. In the end - it's just not believable and there is nobody (except "the whore", and as an aside - thanks social development that we, at least in most of the developed world, moved away from prying into people's private lives to the point of actually causing them harm in their public lives), who has any, ANY appeal in this story.
If you like the pretence of style over Substance of Camus' "Stranger" you will like that movie, or if you like an unintentional comedic jumpscare horror with 2 creepface men and 1 resting assface woman as a protagonist - this movie is for you, for the rest - avoid and watch modern American drama.
Sadly in this movie I feel I can see the beginning of the fall of the European cinema from making movies close to life, to being just another socialist Soviet Union cinema which exists solely because it's funded by the government and the "cultivated" class through lobbying.