WOMAN IN CAR (Femme. Voiture.) – a film by Vanya Rose – SPOILERS
Vanya Rose takes the characters from Edith Wharton’s THE REEF and inserts them into an alternate universe where their primary motivations remain the same, but causality is warped. Set in Montreal instead of Paris, it is (fundamentally) a three character story. Anne (Hรฉlรจne Joy) is Anna from the novel. Safiye (Lianne Balaban) corresponds to Sophy the Governess, and Anne’s sister-in-law Charlotte (Gabrielle Lazure) can be regarded as an alt-universe version of the Dowager Marquise de Chantelle. Or, alternatively, the three might be Artemis (Goddess of the Hunt), Athena (Goddess of Handicrafts), and Hera (sister and wife of Zeus). However one interprets them, everything each of them says must be attended closely. Beware of plot twists that appear just at the edge of perception, then promptly disappear.
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