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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

When she's almost killed during an assignment in Kabul, photographer Juliette Binoche must confront the anguish she's causing her family in this globe-trotting English-language drama from Norwegian film-maker (and former photojournalist) Erik Poppe. Even by her own high standards, Binoche is utterly compelling here, ravaged by guilt back home in Ireland when she sees the anguish she's visiting on teenage daughter Lauryn Canny and marine biologist hubby Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, yet still driven to experience the adrenaline rush of taking pictures in the world's hottest spots. Cleverly, the film makes it clear that Binoche is also strongly motivated by bringing suffering and injustice to light, making the central conflict that bit sharper. True, director Poppe occasionally falls back on dramatic contrivance to move events forward, yet for the most part his story is vividly convincing in both domestic context and troubled foreign climes, tackling rich subject matter with no little emotional intelligence - all of it built around Binoche's fierce commitment and ever-beguiling screen presence.

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Credits

Cast

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RebeccaJuliette Binoche
MarcusNikolaj Coster-Waldau
StephanieLauryn Canny
LisaAdrianna Cramer Curtis
TheresaMaria Doyle Kennedy
TomLarry Mullen Jr
StigMads Ousdal
JessicaChloe Annett
BrianBush Moukarzel

Crew

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DirectorErik Poppe

Details

Theatrical distributor
Arrow Films
Released on
2014-05-02
Languages
English | Norwegian
Guidance
Violence.
Available on
DVD and Blu-ray
Formats
Colour
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