Metrograph

Paris artist Juliette Binoche looks for love with a series of sweet and sour partners in Denis’s very free, disarmingly comic, and occasionally staggeringly sleazy adaptation of Roland Barthes’s unadaptable A Lover’s Discourse, a rare (and raw) depiction of female desire undiminished by middle age that watches La Binoche bouncing between married mutt Xavier Beauvois, over-the-top actor Nicolas Duvauchelle, hairdresser Paul Blain, and sweet but commitment-shy Alex Descas. “A very simple story of enormous complexity.”—Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Distributor: IFC Films