The poster for Jean Paul Civeyrac's new feature film is the most original we've seen in a long time.
She promotes a French film without Virginie Efira and with Sophie Marceau, bow in hand, bandaged, arrow pointed towards a mysterious off-screen.
You can be both d'Artagnan's daughter and Robin Hood's cousin?
Or would we be dealing with a remake of
Deliverance
with the star of
La Boum
reprising the role of Burt Reynolds?
Intriguing.
Rather swollen even.
Especially since the bow, an archaic, mythological weapon, is here contradicted by a title that proclaims a contemporary anchorage:
A woman of our time
.
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This woman is Juliane.
She is a police commissioner in Paris.
An honest and inflexible cop - the corpse of a corrupt colleague found in the forest hardly moves her.
She has a grown daughter and a real estate agent husband (Johan Heldenbergh and his deceptively charming Flemish accent).
She shoots archery, sometimes in a club but especially in the woods.
She also writes thrillers.
His next…
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