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Jan 14, 2005 · Siegrid Alnoy’s She’s One of Us asks us to take a woman’s ennui at face value. Literally. You see, for a good portion of the film’s running time, Christine (Sasha Andres)—a female riff on Meursault from Camus’s The Stranger —stares into Alnoy’s camera with a stupid smirk or blank expression on her face, friends and acquaintances ...
Sep 10, 2012 · Christine Blanc (Andres) is an office temp caught in an existential free fall. After an abrupt act of violence, Christine's luck mysteriously begins to change—or does it?
New York Daily News. Alnoy's unnerving mood piece is spare and atmospheric, even funny. The movie is accomplished, but gets hung up on arty composition. Read More. By Jami Bernard FULL REVIEW. 60. Variety.
She's One of Us: Directed by Siegrid Alnoy. With Sasha Andres, Carlo Brandt, Pierre-Félix Gravière, Catherine Mouchet. Echoes of Dostoyevsky. At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone.
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- Siegrid Alnoy
- 2003-09-24
Recent reviews. At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men seem interested in her, she's passed her driving test, and, after she wins 1000 Euros in a scratch-off, her colleagues sing that she's a jolly good fellow ("one of us").
- Siegrid Alnoy
Jan 21, 2005 · Get new reviews in your email in-box or in an app by becoming a paid Substack subscriber or Patreon patron. The often conflicting human drives for social acceptance and liberated individuality are at all- out war with each other in this disconcerting film, a striking debut from director Siegrid Alnoy and star Sasha Andres.
Christine (Sasha Andres) is a thirty-five-year-old outsider who works for a temp agency and floats from one job to another. This way of life seems to suit her since she has a hard time relating to others.
