‘A Woman’s Life’ Review: Léa Drucker Shines In Compelling Portrait Of A Doctor Who Saves Lives While Trying To Keep Her Own Intact – Cannes Film Festival

The star discusses playing "a crippled, bitter villainess with a deep resentment toward progress" in her first big role since 'Emilia Pérez' and that Oscar season controversy, with CEO Silvia Carvalho touting the film as "distinctive" and a "statement" title heading into the company's first Cannes market.

Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet's Cannes competition entry revolves around a 55-year-old Parisian doctor who begins questioning her life choices after a novelist takes an interest in her.

“Anaïs in Love,” the 2021 debut feature by writer-director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, was a sunny portrait of idealized French womanhood that turned cooler and stranger the longer you stayed with it: Its title character, outwardly a maddeningly winsome ingenue of a particularly Gallic stripe, revealed layers of insecurity and instability we didn’t see coming, and the […]

For many, it probably was.