‘Visiting Hours’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Dazzles in Twisty French Melodrama
variety.comManuel Betancourt Both in its original French (“La Prisonnière de Bordeaux”) and in its English translation (“Visiting Hours”), the title for Patricia Mazuy’s latest offers a bit of misdirection.
This is not really a prison drama. Its focus is instead on two women who share little in common but the fact that their husbands are both jailed in the same facility.
Their happenstance meeting during an afternoon prison visit gives way to an unlikely dynamic that gets ever thornier the more their two disparate worlds collide.
But Mazuy’s chilly melodrama eventually does live up to its title(s). At its core, this tight, terse study in both class and race relations is about the walls we create around one another — and the cost of letting others into prisons of our own making.
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