Directed by Claire Denis | 95 mins | 2017
Claire Denis’s voluptuous riff on "A Lover’s Discourse" by Roland Barthes stars a characteristically radiant Juliette Binoche as Isabelle, a divorced artist in search of swoon-inducing, capital-L love. What she finds, via a series of comedy-laced liaisons with men spread across a spectrum of emotional availability, is something other than that—but cast in cinematographer Agnès Godard’s golden light, Isabelle’s persistent faith in her endeavor is not heartbreaking, but galvanizing.