My Zoe

It is a challenge to combine blistering scenes between hostile exes and thoughtful explorations of medical ethics, but writer/director/star Julie Delpy brings it all together.

My Zoe is a strange, moving picture about how we process grief - or, in some cases, fail to - but it's also a powerful and complex exploration of scientific, emotional, and familial ethics.

The hostility between Isabelle and Richard has to be contained in these challenging circumstances, which only adds to the stress and unhappiness. Delpy handles these scenes with a delicate skill...

There are horror films and then there are films that dramatise fears too close to home. Julie Delpy's My Zoe falls into the second category.

The talented Julie Delpy misfires as director and star of a clumsy combo of domestic tragedy and sci-fi that comes to a maddening conclusion.

My Zoe dares to lead with its feelings, and that fearlessness provides a striking spectacle itself.

Delpy is casually mesmerizing and naked with her feelings in a way that only a handful of actresses could ever achieve...

Regardless of whether audiences agree with Isabelle's decisions, they will likely empathize with this portrait of a mother in despair.

Always at the heart of My Zoe's heartbreaking angst and that surprising genre shift is the ever powerful love of the mother - brought to life with sensitivity and subtlety by Delpy - for her daughter.

Julie Delpy's sci-fi take on grief is a heartbreaking and profoundly humanist examination of where the future may take us when it comes to coping - or not - with the loss of our loved ones.