Another’s Place: Lyna Khoudri and Sabine Azéma are remarkable (review)
Arte is offering this lovely film released in cinemas in early 2022.
Nélie escaped a miserable existence by becoming an auxiliary nurse on the front in 1914. One day, she takes on the identity of Rose, a young woman whom she saw die before her eyes, and promised a better future. Nélie presents herself in her place at the home of a rich widow, Eléonore, of whom she becomes the reader. The lie works beyond his expectations.
Tonight on television, First advise you Another’s Place, by Aurélia Georges. Here is our review.
After two sharp films (The Walking Man And The Girl and the River), Aurélia Georges ventures into more mainstream territory with a story set at the heart of the First World War. A street kid who escaped poverty by becoming a nurse on the front, Nélie decides to take the place of a young woman who dies before her eyes and to go to the house of the rich widow who was to hire her.
Another’s Place is therefore the story of an imposture, thwarted by the return of one who was not therefore dead, wishing to resume her place. The assumed classicism of the staging initially seems to stifle the romance of a story rich in tension and twists and turns. But this bias ends up creating the perfect setting to densify the exchanges rich in unsaid words between Nélie and her boss (Lyna Khoudri and Sabine Azéma, remarkable) and this quasi-filial relationship that neither of them had anticipated.
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