It wasn’t too long ago that we were presented with a drama to come out of France focusing on the relationship between a labouring doctor and an emotionally volatile patient, in Philippe Claudel’s Before the Winter Chill. Now, Axelle Ropert’s sophomore feature film Miss and the Doctors delves into similar territory, and though bearing a somewhat less celebrated cast and crew, is the more accomplished piece; nuanced, less ambiguous – and all the better for it.
Brothers Boris (Cédric Kahn) and Dmitri (Laurent Stocker) are two doctors almost tied at the hip, working together in unison as popular paediatricians. A regular patient of theirs is the young Alice (Paula Denis), who suffers from diabetes – however it’s her mother Judith (Louise Bourgoin) they soon start visiting, as both doctors fall desperately in love with the single parent. While Judith’s affections seem to lie more with Boris over the hapless Dmitri,...
Brothers Boris (Cédric Kahn) and Dmitri (Laurent Stocker) are two doctors almost tied at the hip, working together in unison as popular paediatricians. A regular patient of theirs is the young Alice (Paula Denis), who suffers from diabetes – however it’s her mother Judith (Louise Bourgoin) they soon start visiting, as both doctors fall desperately in love with the single parent. While Judith’s affections seem to lie more with Boris over the hapless Dmitri,...
- 5/29/2014
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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