Stylish, beautiful,

Rating: 7/10 (9 March 2014)

For me, this is the definition of an art movie. Minimal crew, confined spaces, slow pace. Deliberately choosing some key objects and constantly returning to them as for some symbolism. It reminded me of some earlier Ridley Scotts' movies and of some lynch movies, though without the shocking images.
Beautiful Juliette Binoche plays, wonderfully, a beautiful, both inside and outside, woman. I have sympathized with her character. Both the idea of the movie and the point at the end are very clear, and portrayed very well. In contrast to other movies where we have some turn in the plot, here we have a turn (change) in the character. So this is mostly a character driven movie.
There are lots of concentrations on blue chandelier, blue swimming pool, showing Julie relaxing herself. Such accent on the art made a compromise in the plot. So there was not much going on. For an hour and a half movie, it felt slightly longer than necessary. Still, it was beautiful and well played.