Une histoire banale (2014) Reviews

• Tremendous

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  One more french drama that let you stuck to your seat all long the film. A simple story, so common, unfortunately, telling the story of a Young woman who is raped by a colleague of hers and then hide it Inside herself. A torture for the lead. She is destroyed by the guilt, as many women all around the world, who will never tell this kind of scar to anyone. It is well described and the characters play in a very sharp way, very accurate. There are many french films like this one. But they are not widely shown, released. Such a shame. The female director deserves to be known.

• Hysterical

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  When this movie started off with the heroine's offense at a middle-aged white man trying to interact with her on the train immediately followed by a pornographic sex scene with her black fiancé I could guess how this rape dramatization was going to go, and my expectations were more than met. Though the plot is simple, logic is continually defeated by obscure emotionalism. Before the rape the Victim doesn't act very rational, what is a straightforward assault is still somehow also unconvincing, and then her reaction is even stranger, with the Victim stuffing food in her mouth in public and exhibiting symptoms of multiple mental disorders. Recovery involves reenacting the rape with her friend, giving a useless testimony to the police after this rehearsal so that a rapist will remain free, getting a new boyfriend good at talking her in to sex, and learning to dance. All this is a great portrayal of the modern emancipated female, and the leading lady was brilliantly cast for her ugly sad face.