Cannes Review: Vicky Krieps & Gaspard Ulliel In ‘More Than Ever’
deadline.comDirector Emily Atef’s Cannes Un Certain Regard drama More Than Ever is a careful, fastidious, Tradition of Quality film about impending death that’s easy to admire but won’t exactly pack ‘em in.
Vicky Krieps impresses yet again, here playing a woman in her early 30s suffering from a likely fatal condition who travels from France to the fjords of Norway to try to come to terms with her unfair lot in life.
It’s an entirely respectable and honorable piece about facing your own demise far before your expected time, but still the kind of thing most people would rather not think about.In Europe in particular, the film will be remembered as the last feature to star the popular French actor Gaspard Ulliel, who died in a skiing accident on January 19.
He had also played the young Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal Rising as well as the title character in the biopic Saint Laurent. The spectre of death sadly hangs over this film even more than it was supposed to.Every element in Atef’s fifth feature is clear, pristine, civilized and well thought through.
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