
Echoes of Dostoyevsky. At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men seem interested in her, she's passed her driving test, and, after she wins 1000 Euros in a scratch-off, her colleagues sing that she's a jolly good fellow ("one of us"). But something's askew: her gaze is too direct, her eyes open too widely; conversational gambits hit odd notes; she parrots others' words; ... (Full plot summary below)
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Echoes of Dostoyevsky. At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men seem interested in her, she's passed her driving test, and, after she wins 1000 Euros in a scratch-off, her colleagues sing that she's a jolly good fellow ("one of us"). But something's askew: her gaze is too direct, her eyes open too widely; conversational gambits hit odd notes; she parrots others' words; she cooks too much food when she invites a supervisor to dinner. When the supervisor takes Christine on a spontaneous outing that disorients her, her oddities become something else. Can things ever be normal?
Leave your thoughts about She's One of Us.
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittImaginatively acted, endlessly atmospheric. |
| Film Journal InternationalLewis BealeIt's all about look and style, and almost devoid of interest. |
| VarietyDavid RooneyWhile the director's penchant for extended silences and stagy character positioning make it all seem rather studied, the drama nonetheless is compellingly unsettling. |
| TV GuideMaitland McDonaghAlnoy's narrative is better suited to a trashy thriller than a vehicle for weighty political themes. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoThe cryptic finale raises more questions than it solves. But She's One of Us is such a fine work that answers aren't necessary. |
| Village VoiceMelissa AndersonSiegrid Alnoy's occasionally affecting but overdetermined debut feature mines the most unstable sector of the white-collar class: the temp. |