Géraldine Nakache's Cannes Premiere selection exposes the quiet, concealed violence that occurs between partners, revealing how it manifests in the private spaces of their daily intimate life.
By Alissa Simon
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Courtesy of Playtime The contemporary Franco-Belgian cinema certainly does not lack for films about toxic relationships and domestic abuse, with Xavier Legrand’s “Custody” and Valérie Donizelli’s “Just The Two of Us” among the recent best. An impressively shot, tension-filled drama about a woman trying to escape from an abusive, controlling husband, featuring strong performances by French-Canadian thesps Monia Chokri and Nils Schneider, French writer-helmer Géraldine Nakache’s “Think Good” is pretty textbook as these things go. But it gains an extra piquancy from being centered on a modern Orthodox Jewish couple, with select religious rituals and rules impacting the drama and the visuals. Fest and boutique distributors should think good about this title, which unspools in this year’s non-competitive Cannes Premiere sidebar.
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