What Is It Like to Be Submerged in Grief?

Rating: 9/10 (6 February 2016)

This film is about the most raw of emotions, grief from great loss. In an opening scene, the brakes go out on a car, ridden in by Juiette Binoche, the result of which is the loss of her composer husband and her young daughter. We now focus on her attempted recovery which begins with a suicide attempt. Once out of the hospital, she wallows in grief. She obviously has the funds to go on which allows her to drop out of her previous world. Her husband had been respected all over the world for his work, but it is implied that she had as much to do with the work as he did. One of her husband's associates (who has loved her and sleeps with her one evening) wants to finish the master's final composition. She destroyed a copy earlier, but it resurfaced as a copy in his desk at his workplace. As she tries to get direction, she finds out deep secrets that were kept. She has a relationship with an exotic dancer in a sex club. There are rather obvious scenes of her swimming alone, going into the depths of the water and coming out. This is quite an intense, but superbly quiet film.