Timing is everything. Classical piano student Marie (Judith Davis) is learning how to be both expressive and poised while playing at a famous conservatory when she enters into a mad, disruptive relationship with her roommate Odile (Fabienne Babe). The two drift into a sexual experience one night that sparks a volatile possessiveness by Odile, which not only complicates Marie’s competitive performances with her fellow piano students but also a promising romance with a male pianist. Odile and Marie fall out repeatedly, but the former has a way of closing off possible escapes before Marie can get out. Filmmaker Sophie Laloy’s French drama You Will Be Mine takes a page from the 1992 American thriller Single White Female, but it is more psychologically complex and mysterious, as the relationship between the two women bends towards mutual craziness. And Laloy excels at visually using the apartment layout as a fight or flight labyrinth. Recommended. (T. Keogh)
You Will Be Mine
Film Movement, 100 min., in French w/English subtitles, not rated, DVD: $24.99, July 24 Volume 33, Issue 5
You Will Be Mine
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