Other People's Children

Efira may be as radiant as a Botticelli angel, but it's her no-nonsense directness that gets you.

The film concerns itself with quotidian life, confident that this is enough to keep us interested. In this writer and director Rebecca Zlotowski is proven right: it is more than enough.

It tells a small-canvas story that loses none of its poignancy for refusing to overreach or give into fatal self-seriousness.

Virginie Efira is such a luminous presence. She's so nuanced and fully drawn.

The film’s success starts and ends with the natural vibrancy of the performances, and Efira leads the way.

Virginie Efira brings compassion and believability to a woman facing complex choices

The trials and tribulations of being a woman at 40 are uniquely realized in this compelling French drama.

Other People’s Children is a film that matters, full of fine performances. It just takes a wrong turn, that’s all.

Neither reducing Rachel to her childlessness nor ignoring its emotional impact on her, this is a deeply empathetic movie that never questions the completeness of its protagonist’s life.

This is a good old-fashioned movie made with such intelligence, humanity and know-how that it’s better than most of the new-fashioned movies made in recent years.