The film offers an essay on rape and gender fluidity that locks us out of the cognitive process of digesting it.
Control is the operative element in Benoît Jacquot’s work, with the main caveat being that when someone has it, someone else does not.
Though not among Jacques Rivette great films, Around a Small Mountain shares a lot of qualities with the director’s best work.
Ripped of her humanity, Sylvie Testud’s Christine becomes a working stiff of Greek proportions.