“Both Sides of the Blade,” Claire Denis’s latest film, is a romantic melodrama; it lays bare the societal circumstances that play a decisive role in a middle-aged couple’s life together.
Claire Denis’s recent collaborations with the actress Juliette Binoche have all been modernist twists on classic genres, starting with “Let the Sunshine In,” a screwball comedy, and “High Life,” a work of science fiction. The latest, “Both Sides of the Blade,” which opens Friday, is a romantic melodrama; it lays bare the societal circumstances that play a decisive role in a middle-aged couple’s life together, and it does so without stinting on direct and passionate emotional expression.
“Both Sides of the Blade” is an update of the classic romantic triangle, which Denis inscribes on a much more elaborate geometry of politics, history, geography, memory, and mores. All the more remarkably, she does so without disrupting the textures of realistic drama—yet, here, that familiar form comes off not as a mere unquestioned conventional method but as a conscious choice, an element of character psychology.
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