View in RealSteel Where Museum Night 2by her father Shawn Levy, Sophie Levy directed her first film at the age of 23 with Astonished out Wednesday, October 26. She affirms an early maturity in writing, in directing actors and in staging. Love and hate battle in a trio under the fire of feelings.
Romane shares with her hemiplegic younger sister, Clémence, their large family home in the middle of the woods, inherited from their parents. Absorbed by her work, Romane realizes that she is increasingly neglecting her sister, whose only help she is. She comes home one evening with Guillaume, a professional firefighter, who becomes her lover. He discovers Clémence and decides to devote himself to reducing his handicap.
Film by actors with a psychological dominance, Astonished also plays a lot of the two sisters’ glass house. Sophie Levy is reminiscent of Roman Polanski, master of the camera (Dead end, Rosemary Baby, Carnage), in her way of filming space, which she crosses with fluid and discreet movements. It is in Romane (a reference to Roman Polanski?), who lives in a transparent, bright and comfortable house, that the shadows will emerge, to bring the film from day to night. A night as much physical as psychological.
The editing (Sophie Levy is also an editor) alternates scenes showing Clémence as a businesswoman, and those where Clémence practices with Guillaume. When the three of them meet again, the eldest takes a suspicious look at her youngest, and develops a jealousy, the embryo of a hatred that will invade her to the point of neurosis.
Sophie Levy paces her story (once again, we recognize the editor) in a film that avoids frills, goes to the essentials while developing the psychology of the characters. It is served by Anamaria Vartolomei and Roxane Mesquida, fittings in their duo. Withdrawn, Arnaud Valois is the object of desire of a paranoid woman, and of a second who finds in him an unprecedented attention. The meticulous dramatic editing and the interpretation are not the least assets of Astonishedintimate thriller, and promising first film.
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Gender : Drama
Director: Sophie Levy (II)
Actors: Anamaria Vartolomei, Roxane Mesquida, Arnaud Valois
Country : France
Duration : 1h26
Exit : October 26, 2022
Distributer : Wayna Pitch
Summary: Romane returns home late with Guillaume, with whom she quickly falls in love. The next morning, Guillaume discovers a girl in the living room. It’s Clémence, Romane’s sister, who remained hemiplegic and deprived of speech following an accident. Guillaume then feels invested with a mission: to restore body and life to Clémence.