Screening between Friday 5th and Thursday 18th June 2009 @ Watershed, Bristol

Playing with themes of romance, love and the endurable differences of the family, Anything For Her is not your usual summertime flick. Using a nail-biting narrative, first time director Fred Cavaye explores the disintegration of the perfect family by thrusting them into an unwanted nightmare where they will never be able to live ‘perfectly’ again.

Lise (Diane Kruger) and Julien (Vincent Lindon) live a quiet married life with their baby, Oscar. Their sex life is sizzling and they equally manage to balance their full time careers along side their child with no usual bickering. They are happy in love and ultimately have (at the film’s outset) what people strive for but this fairytale family can not survive in a world full of unpredictability and Cavaye shatters it as Lise is dragged away by the police, accused of murder.

The subtitles enhance the concentration of this ‘whodunit’ thriller but the question is answered a little bit too early, as Lise’s innocence is clarified through a flashback thus giving audience motive to side with Julien. From here the focus then shifts from Lise and her plea for innocence to Julien and the lengths he will go to to save his wife – anything for her it would seem. With a fantastic cast and a gritty plot, this film ties the audience to their seats as they watch a heart wrenching love story that’s disturbing and desperate.

‘Escaping is easy, it’s staying free that’s difficult.’ As we leave the cinema we ask ourselves if this family can stay free, in a society enriched with unpredictability. The audience writes the sequel for this film, the sequel we think the family deserve. After watching this film, a box of flowers and a bunch of flowers from the one you love, just won’t seem enough.

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Kayliegh Cassidy