Film Review – The Innocents

Director Anne Fontaine has been working for the last two decades, amassing a varied filmography that includes recent efforts “Gemma Bovary” and “Adoration.” “The Innocents” is perhaps her bleakest picture, but it’s also her most accomplished. A haunting look at desperation during an unusual time of liberation, “The Innocents” finds yet another corner of World War II to examine, with Fontaine building an uneasy drama with sensational characterization, defining personalities and troubles with helming precision, but never discounting the emotional power of the tale, despite dealing with a subject matter that welcomes religious and cultural iciness. It’s not a feature to be approached causally, but it captures a place and time superbly. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com