Rhapsody In Blue

Rating: 9/10 (1 July 2007)

I'm not perhaps the best person to write objectively about a film that was screened just one week after I found myself in the same position as Juliette Binoche - bereaved rather than involved in an automobile accident. Everyone reacts differently of course and though I found little in the way of common feelings I was able to register Binoche's total immersion in the role and marvel at the way she is able to say so much without speaking. This is, I suspect, an extremely fine film on a delicate subject and in my case I did not, as I thought I might, rebel against its ultimate message that implied a healing process was well under way, because common sense dictates that this must eventually be the case even when it is the last thing the bereaved want to hear. I can only praise a film in which all the creative elements, Writing, Directing, Acting are as good as it gets.