Review of Both Sides of the Blade (2022) by Jluis_001 — 25 Dec 2022

Love's fickleness is so extreme that the stability you may have fought for for years can be shattered in a second by a chance encounter that turns you into someone else.

This story may seem like a romance at first, but soon it becomes a story whose language devolves into constant evasions and outright lies until it all comes out, and those moments are never tidy or pleasant.

The storytelling is not too clean and there is more than one occasion where it gives the feeling that the script is pushing towards melodrama, not so much to force the breakdown because you can see it coming, but to give a sense of gloom, which to some extent is understandable. Once the breaking point is reached, nothing is ever the same again and now we see how the masks fall.

Both Sides of the Blade is a film that relies entirely on the strength of its actors and their performances. A dialogue driven drama from beginning to end.

Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon do a more than excellent job and are the pillars of the story as they should be.

It may not be spectacular, but it is enjoyable, nonetheless.