One Deadly Summer(1983 - French)

I watched One Deadly Summer(1983), directed by Jean Becker. This is engrossing. Isabelle Adjani is Elle, a young woman obsessed with avenging her mother's rape by Italian immigrants before she was born. She resulted from this rape and the father she grew up with generally disdains her. The Elle character is hard to take at times, as she is generally bitchy to everybody. The film uses an unusual device of characters taking turns narrating, which works. The acting is good throughout. Elle's husband's aunt is an endearing character, she knows more than anyone thinks and becomes sort of an allie for Elle. The scream that Elle's mother lets out after being raped in a flashback is chilling. This is worth your time if you can take a tragic ending. I think I read Ms Adjani won best actress at Cannes.

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