Forget Kieślowski’s Veronique: In ‘Delicate’ Melodrama ‘Let Me Go,’ It’s All About the Double Life of Claudine
variety.comMarta Balaga Swiss director Maxime Rappaz isn’t sure if there is more space for stories about more mature women these days.
But he is certainly willing to give it a try. “I am fascinated by that phase in someone’s life,” he tells Variety, opening up about his fiftysomething protagonist played byJeanne Balibar. “I want as many people as possible to see it, that’s for sure.
But also women who think it’s already too late for them to change things. If this film can trigger something in them, it would make me so happy.” In his feature debut “Let Me Go,” the opening film of Cannes’ ACID sidebar, Claudine keeps dedicating herself to her differently abled, Princess Diana-obsessed son.
But every once in a while, she puts on the same white dress and heads to the same hotel in the mountains, where she meets and romances men.
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