Posted: September 30, 2015 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: A Brilliant Young Mind, Anne-Sophie Brasme, Asa Butterfield, Beautiful Young Minds, Breathe, Eddie Marsan, Inglourious Basterds, James Graham, Josephine Japy, Julien Lambroschini, Lou de Laage, Melanie Laurent, Morgan Matthews, Pierre Laurent, Rafe Spall, Sally Hawkins, The Simpsons | 2,125 Comments »
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Warning: SPOILERS
Melanie Laurent is an artist probably best known in the U.S. for her role as the Jewish girl who escapes the clutches of Christoph Waltz in the opening of the film Inglourious Basterds. But she doesn’t seem to be somebody who is only going to do one thing. Not only does she sing, but she has also branched out into directing and screenwriting.
Her most recent film, Breathe (her second feature), written by her and Julien Lambroschini from a novel by Anne-Sophie Brasme, is a very assured character study of Charlie, a high school teenager who suddenly finds her outer and inner world spiraling out of control.
The cause of this chaos is the arrival at her school of a transfer student, Sarah. At first Sarah seems sweet and good natured (in a rather clever little opening bit on her first appearance) and she quickly and very determinedly ingratiates herself into Charlie’s life.
But it’s not long before the audience sees what Charlie can’t. That Sarah has a darker aspect to her personality. In fact, it almost immediately becomes clear that Sarah is a sociopath. She quickly manipulates Charlie into dropping her present best friend without Charlie realizing she has done so. And it’s not long before the two new friends are inseparable. Read the rest of this entry »
