52 Films by Women Vol 7. 26. MORE THAN EVER (Plus Que Jamais) (Director: Emily Atef)
Contains spoilers. You wait for a film in which a married woman played by Vicky Krieps travels to a Nordic country and two arrive within twelve months. Krieps’ terrific central performance in co-writer-director Emily Atef’s French language drama, Plus Que Jamais ( More Than Ever ) is award-worthy by any reasonable measure of quality. It follows her lighter turn as a filmmaker in Mia Hansen-L ø ve’s Bergman Island , in which her character travelled to the late Ingmar Bergman’s home for inspiration, as well as her performance in the fanciful year-in-the-life of Empress Sisi in Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage . Krieps has more interesting roles in films by women directors than in the work of their male counterparts, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread notwithstanding. Her achievements on screen have reached a purple patch. Co-written by Lars Hubrich, More Than Ever explores a simple truth more clearly than any film I’ve seen on the subject: the living and dying have nothing to say...