Particularly impressive is how layered the movie becomes, as we note echoes of the central dynamic in other relationships around Charlie. The template for her feelings of rejection by Sarah, for example, is set up in her own treatment of loyal Victoire, and her masochistic streak is mirrored by her mother’s constant forgiveness of her father’s transgressions. But it’s that Charlie is oblivious to the fact that she might be in any way responsible for her misery that gives the film its cleverness and ambiguity, because while most of it is told from Charlie’s point of view, Laurent almost always pulls back from the brink of making Sarah an all-out villain by, just in the nick of time, allowing us a flash of her perspective too.