She feels the resolution clouds the point of the movie. Juliette has demons, to be sure, but she actually did a better thing than we've been led to believe. "I've Loved You So Long" is instantly transformed from an uncompromising look at a conflicted soul into a middling melodrama. And missing are the questions of why she never thought to explain herself and why nobody noticed anything amiss at the time.
Is all this too vague? Too damning? "I've Love You So Long" is still worth a look, primarily because of Scott Thomas's complex, touching performance--completely in French. (Her (convincing to me) accent is explained by her character's half-British parentage.)
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We just watched this last night, & I dunno if either of those is the reason the ending bothered me.
The letter bit didn't bother me at all, & I feel the revelations following were kinda telegraphed from the moment we learned Juliette was formerly a doctor and killed her own 6 year old son.
What I didn't like is that we enter that final scene in media res after a fade to black from the previous scene where Lea gets the informative phone call. I felt kind of cheated, that we didn't get to see the beginning of that confrontation, which follows fifteen years of unanswered questions, followed by several months of avoidance & polite tiptoeing around the issue with her sister. I wanted to see how Lea would begin to push and confront Juliette with what her inadvertent snooping revealed.
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