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A calm, healing film about life after Islamist terror

The devastation and loss caused by terrorist attacks in Paris, Nice and elsewhere form the starting point for this determinedly gentle French film from director and co-writer Mikhaël Hers, about a fictionalised violent incident. It's a calm, healing movie with a sweetly emollient musical score, and it consciously - counterintuitively - refuses to engage with the divisive political anger and revulsion that might be expected to be the focus of a film about terror victims. I sometimes wondered if it would look all that different if the character involved died of cancer, rather than in a horrendous mass shooting in a public park. [...]

di Peter Bradshaw, articolo completo (3934 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Guardian 30 agosto 2018