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R15

THE BRAID

Genre
Drama
Running time
120 minutes
Year
2023
Language
English, Italian and Hindi
Subtitle
English
Country
France
Director
Laetitia Colombani
Bio
Producer
Olivier Delbosc, Carolina Iorio, Marc Missonnier
Cast
Sarah Abbot, Katherine Adams, Fotinì Peluso, Sarah Camacho, Marcel Jeannin, Mia Maelzer
Scriptwriter
Laetitia Colombani
Laetitia Colombani’s assured adaptation of her own best-selling novel weaves together three stories of female struggle and perseverance across three continents. Smita (Mia Maelzer) is an Indian “untouchable”, literally shovelling human excrement. In Puglia, Italy, Giulia (Fotina Puluso) is a confident, bookish young woman trying to keep her father’s wig business afloat after he goes into a coma. At the other end of the social spectrum in Montreal, Sarah (Kim Raver) is a successful lawyer on the verge of a senior partnership, trying to cover up an ill-timed cancer diagnosis. Colombani cuts between these three determined, sometimes reckless women, tracking echoes and parallels as well as the obvious contrasts between their levels of affluence, while moving towards an emotional finale.