Two of the previous four reviewers loved this movie. Two really disliked it.
I guess I'm somewhere in the middle.
The story it tells about the Senegalese immigrant who kills her child is a sad one, certainly. In the end, after we hear all the evidence, it is hard not to agree with her defender, who concluded that she suffered from some sort of mental disorder.
What is less clear is the effect her testimony has not only on Rama, the novelist who attended the trial, but also on the female judge and that lawyer. Rama tells her lover that she is afraid of being a bad mother to their still unborn child because she sees her relationship with her own mother as bad. But why is she worried about that? I was surprised that she never talks about how she might base a novel on the mother's infanticide, which was the original reason she went to the trial to observe. Or does she at the end abandon that idea. If so, why?
I found the acting to be very good. The movie moves very slowly, certainly, but that didn't bother me.
I could never recommend this movie to any woman with children. I don't know how many men would want to sit through all of it. So I can't actually recommend it here, unless perhaps you know the director's or the actors' previous work and want to see their latest endeavor.
I guess I'm somewhere in the middle.
The story it tells about the Senegalese immigrant who kills her child is a sad one, certainly. In the end, after we hear all the evidence, it is hard not to agree with her defender, who concluded that she suffered from some sort of mental disorder.
What is less clear is the effect her testimony has not only on Rama, the novelist who attended the trial, but also on the female judge and that lawyer. Rama tells her lover that she is afraid of being a bad mother to their still unborn child because she sees her relationship with her own mother as bad. But why is she worried about that? I was surprised that she never talks about how she might base a novel on the mother's infanticide, which was the original reason she went to the trial to observe. Or does she at the end abandon that idea. If so, why?
I found the acting to be very good. The movie moves very slowly, certainly, but that didn't bother me.
I could never recommend this movie to any woman with children. I don't know how many men would want to sit through all of it. So I can't actually recommend it here, unless perhaps you know the director's or the actors' previous work and want to see their latest endeavor.