Summary
Rebecca is one of the world's top war photographers. She must weather a major emotional storm when her husband refuses to put up with her dangerous life any longer.
Rebecca is one of the world's top war photographers. She must weather a major emotional storm when her husband refuses to put up with her dangerous life any longer.
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.
role | name |
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Rebecca | Juliette Binoche |
Marcus | Nikolaj Coster-Waldau |
Stephanie | Lauryn Canny |
Lisa | Adrianna Cramer Curtis |
Theresa | Maria Doyle Kennedy |
Tom | Larry Mullen Jr |
Stig | Mads Ousdal |
Jessica | Chloe Annett |
Brian | Bush Moukarzel |
role | name |
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Director | Erik Poppe |