In the chaos of the Great War, the discreet scent of
La Place d'autre
knows how to find its place.
A resolutely academic period drama, the third feature film by Aurélia Georges (
The Girl and the River, The Walking Man
) above all allows us to find a Sabine Azéma all in nuances, depth and fragility, while the muse by Alain Resnais had slowly moved away from the world of cinema for four years.
The plot of
La Place d'une autre,
as its title soberly indicates, stages a theft of identity, a cinematographic theme forming a genre in itself.
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