someone i loved

Someone I Loved opened last night's City of Lights, City of Angels festival in Los Angeles. I'll run my own review closer to the film's actual U.S. release, but Variety's Justin Chang sums up my thoughts pretty well with this sentence:

[Director Zabou] Breitman isn't afraid to use a few artful flourishes to blur the lines between past and present or heighten the melodrama of the moment; she's fond of letting cigarette smoke hang suggestively in the air, or adding a delicate layer of soft focus around the edges of the frame.

The artful flourishes are largely what I remember of this romantic-infidelity drama. But when it comes to suggestive cigarette smoke in my filmed entertainment, I prefer Wong Kar Wai.