Actress Marion Cotillard burns a hole in the screen as Stéphanie, a marine animal trainer who loses her legs in a freak accident, and then finds peace of mind with a seemingly dull-witted bouncer/security guard named Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts). Director Jacques Audiard (
A Prophet, The Beat that My Heart Skipped), working from a script he wrote with Thomas Bidegain (story by Craig Davidson), scores extra points by turning Stéphanie’s potentially mawkish situation into a story of rehabilitation by lust. Cotillard (
The Dark Knight Rises, La Vie en Rose) has been sexy before, but never like this. (120 min.)
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Kelly Vance
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