7/10
Confusing catfish romantic drama
4 November 2022
I may have had a higher rating for this movie had I not had to rely on Englush subtitles. Juliet Binoche, still mesmerising in her middle fifties, catfishes a young friend of her toyboy lover who has just dumped her. Catfishing is a ploy used by devious people to create a fake Internet profile in order to try to attract a potential lover, although they usually try to avoid the victim. Juliet plays Claire who uses her niece Clara as the decoy. Clara has stolen Claire's ex husband and is fair game for the deception. The victim is Alex, and Claire, reluctant to actually meet him, joins him on public transport and persuades him to do a photo shoot for her book, thus luring him into her web without revealing who she really is, thus the title. This is where I became confused as Ludo, the lover who had just dumped her, had recently told Claire that Alex had committed suicide. Anyway, she has her lusty way with Alex and eventually he rumbles her when he finds her phone used for the deception. More confusion follows, without revealing spoilers, and we enter mental illness territory so work it out for yourself if you decide to watch. If you have an interesting script and need a good actress to do it, you can't go wrong with Juliet Binoche but a clearer narrative would have helped.
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