The Braid (film)

The Braid
Theatrical release poster
French	La Tresse
Directed by	Laetitia Colombani
Screenplay by	Laetitia Colombani Sarah Kaminsky (collaboration)
Based on	The Braid by Laetitia Colombani
Produced by	Olivier Delbosc Marc Missonnier Richard Lalonde Nicola Giuliano Francesca Cima Carlotta Calori Viola Prestieri
Starring	Kim Raver Fotinì Peluso Mia Maelzer
Cinematography	Ronald Plante
Edited by	Albertina Lastera
Music by	Ludovico Einaudi
Production companies	Curiosa Films Moana Films Forum Films Indigo Film SND Panache Productions La Compagnie Cinématographique France 2 Cinéma Proximus VOO BE TV
Distributed by	SND (France) Indigo Film (Italy)[1] Anga Distribution (Belgium)[2] Sphere Films (Canada)[3]
Release date	29 November 2023 (2023-11-29) (France)
Running time	121 minutes
Countries	France Canada Italy Belgium
Languages	Hindi Italian English
Box office	$9.6 million[4]

The Braid (French: La Tresse) is a 2023 melodramatic film directed by Laetitia Colombani based on her 2017 novel of the same name.^[5][6][7][8]

Filming began on 11 March 2022 in India.^[9] It was theatrically released in France on 29 November 2023.^[10]

Plot

Young mother Susmita lives in India and dreams of giving her little daughter an education, but her husband does not want to change anything. Italian Giulia, after an incident with her father, realizes that the family is left with large debts. A talented lawyer from Canada, Sarah, is about to receive a long-awaited promotion, but a serious diagnosis interferes with her plans. Three women, three secrets. They have never met and do not even know that in fact they are connected by something unique, an interweaving of destinies.

Cast

• Kim Raver as Sarah
• Fotinì Peluso as Giulia
• Mia Maelzer as Smita
• Sajda Pathan as Lalita
• Avi Nash as Camal
• Manuela Ventura as Giulia's mother
• Mimmo Mancini as Giulia's father

Reception

Critical response

In particular, Augustin Pietron-Locatelli, in Télérama, notes an absence of staging and an abuse of clichés, “dripping” music for a film which parallels stories which are not comparable.^[11] Andrew Parker (TheGATE.ca) notes: "The Braid raises some cultural and ethical questions that are left dangling in the breeze in favour of sending things out on a somewhat uplifting note after asking a lot of the audience up to that point".^[12] In Russia, the film was released theatrically on 30 May 2024. Film critic of Kommersant publication Yulia Shagelman considered the film "Sarah’s line was the most elaborate and reliable, but for some reason it’s not very easy to be touched by how an Indian beggar, without knowing it, helped a woman with money and access to modern free (after all, we’re talking about Canada) healthcare".^[13]

References

1. "La Tresse". Mymovies.it. 2023.
2. "La Tresse". Cinemaniacs. 2023.
3. "La Tresse". Sphere Films Canada. 2023.
4. "The Braid (2023)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
5. "La Tresse" (PDF). Unifrance. 2023.
6. "The Braid movie review – based on the best-selling novel". Tribute. 18 January 2024.
7. Anne-Frédérique Hébert-Dolbec (19 January 2024). "La tresse: la misère en spectacle". Le Devoir.
8. "The Braid". IFFSA Toronto. 12 October 2023.
9. "Laëtitia Colombani débute le tournage de "La Tresse"". Le Film français. 11 March 2022.
10. ""La Tresse" : Laetitia Colombani adapte son best-seller dans un film en "hommage au courage des femmes"". Franceinfo (in French). 27 November 2023. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
11. "La Tresse". Télérama. 27 November 2023.
12. "The Braid Review. Under the Same Sky". TheGATE.ca. 19 January 2024.
13. "Точка косы". Kommersant (in Russian). 29 May 2024.

External links

• The Braid at IMDb
• The Braid at Rotten Tomatoes
• "The Braid (La Tresse)". The American French Film Festival. 2023.