Isabelle Huppert is as tough as nails; the perfect choice for a heroine combining glamour, guts and grit. So it’s a real shock when already in the first reel we see her character fragile and bruised. After discovering her husband kissing another woman on the steps of a villa in Choisy Le Roi, Ann emits an existential scream worthy of Edvard Munch. Betrayed and confused she flounders, but from the void she sees an opportunity to set herself free, a small rip in her future’s fabric that she’s determined to tear wider and wider.