The Braid (film)

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The Braid
La Tresse 2023 film poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
French La Tresse
Directed by Laetitia Colombani
Screenplay by
  • Laetitia Colombani
  • Sarah Kaminsky (collaboration)
Based onThe Braid
by Laetitia Colombani
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Ronald Plante
Edited byAlbertina Lastera
Music by Ludovico Einaudi
Production
companies
Distributed by
  • SND (France)
  • Indigo Film (Italy) [1]
  • Anga Distribution (Belgium) [2]
  • Sphere Films (Canada) [3]
Release date
  • 29 November 2023 (2023-11-29)(France)
Running time
121 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Canada
  • Italy
  • Belgium
LanguagesHindi
Italian
English
Box office$9.6 million [4]

The Braid (French : La Tresse) is a 2023 melodramatic film directed by Laetitia Colombani based on her 2017 novel of the same name. [5] [6] [7] [8]

Contents

Filming began on 11 March 2022 in India. [9] It was theatrically released in France on 29 November 2023. [10]

Plot

Young mother Susmita lives in India and dreams of giving her little daughter an education, but her husband does not want to change anything. Italian Giulia, after an incident with her father, realizes that the family is left with large debts. A talented lawyer from Canada, Sarah, is about to receive a long-awaited promotion, but a serious diagnosis interferes with her plans. Three women, three secrets. They have never met and do not even know that in fact they are connected by something unique, an interweaving of destinies.

Cast

Reception

Critical response

In particular, Augustin Pietron-Locatelli, in Télérama , notes an absence of staging and an abuse of clichés, “dripping” music for a film which parallels stories which are not comparable. [11] Andrew Parker (TheGATE.ca) notes: "The Braid raises some cultural and ethical questions that are left dangling in the breeze in favour of sending things out on a somewhat uplifting note after asking a lot of the audience up to that point". [12] In Russia, the film was released theatrically on 30 May 2024. Film critic of Kommersant publication Yulia Shagelman considered the film "Sarah’s line was the most elaborate and reliable, but for some reason it’s not very easy to be touched by how an Indian beggar, without knowing it, helped a woman with money and access to modern free (after all, we’re talking about Canada) healthcare". [13]

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References

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  9. "Laëtitia Colombani débute le tournage de "La Tresse"". Le Film français . 11 March 2022.
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  13. "Точка косы". Kommersant (in Russian). 29 May 2024.