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Both Sides of the Blade
Directed by
Claire Denis
Not Rated
2022
1h 57m
Romance
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Drama
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6.1
84%
43%
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A love triangle story about a woman caught between two men, her long-time partner and his best friend, her former lover.
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Cast of Both Sides of the Blade
Juliette Binoche
Sara
Vincent Lindon
Jean
Grégoire Colin
François
Bulle Ogier
Nelly
Issa Perica
Marcus
Alice Houri
Employee Commercial Court
Mati Diop
Gabrielle
Bruno Podalydès
Inauguration Guest
Lola Créton
Lola
Richard Courcet
Postal Employee
Hind Darwich
Self
Lilian Thuram
Self
Pierre Hiessler
Neighbor with the Dog
Melvin Nkosi
Phone Salesman / Honking Man
Hana Magimel
Arturo Giusi
Both Sides of the Blade Ratings & Reviews
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
I really wanted to like "Both Sides of the Blade." And believe me: For a little while, I did.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
Claire Denis and Juliette Binoche, who have now made three films together, are a match made in a gloriously idiosyncratic heaven.
Austin Chronicle
Josh Kupecki
Human beings can be really complicated. And thankfully, there are filmmakers around like Claire Denis who make films such as Both Sides of the Blade to remind us of that complexity.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Christy Lemire
I don't know if this is one of Claire Denis' best... I was always gripped by it, but I don't love it.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
How strange that a filmmaker as idiosyncratic and fearless as Denis has made such a generic, tentative film.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Alison Willmore
The movie's sophistication comes from its sharp observations of its characters' weaknesses, even as they deny those flaws in themselves and call them out in everyone around them.
Salon.com
Gary M. Kramer
A potent and well-acted film.
AV Club
Jordan Hoffman
"F]ails to connect.
The Reveal (Substack)
Scott Tobias
There's plenty of Denis poetry and ambience in Both Sides of the Blade, but there's red-in-the-face screaming, too, brought about by the unresolvable ache of loving two people at the same time.
RogerEbert.com
Sheila O'Malley
Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon [give] two tremendous performances.
Tribune News Service
Katie Walsh
The film is a riveting sketch of a turbulent love triangle, held together by Binoche and Lindon's incredible performances and sheer screen presence.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
"Both Sides of the Blade" is what people like about French cinema.
The Atlantic
David Sims
Binoche plays Sara as almost unaware of her own wavering feelings for Jean; she's lying both to the audience and herself, and her slow disintegration is spellbinding.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Amy Nicholson
I did really like it. Claire Denis has a way of telling these stories with a temperament that's both cruel and flaming.
Digital Trends
A.A. Dowd
Denis crams more mystery into a single transitional cut than most movies manage across their entire runtimes.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
This is shrewd, distinctive filmmaking that challenges your own perceptions throughout.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
Maybe life is a melodrama, this movie suggests. Or maybe melodrama is closer to life than we realize.
TheWrap
Elizabeth Weitzman
This tension between Denis' cinematic imagination and the characters' quotidian lives winds up feeling less nervy than frustrating.
The Ringer
Adam Nayman
Love hurts in Claire Denis's films, and Both Sides of the Blade is as jagged as anything she's made in the past 15 years.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The silences that overwhelm the movie's confrontational rages and the suppression of backstory details, underplaying motives and emphasizing action, thrust "Fire" out of the realm of psychological drama and into shocking emotional immediacy.
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