Un Beau Soleil Interieur (Let The Sun Shine In)

In Director Claire Denis’ Un Beau Soleil Interieur (Let The Sun Shine In) Juliette Binoche plays Isabelle, a divorced mother, who, because she doesn’t have any inner “sun,” is unable to find love from the men in her life.

There is a wonderful ending scene for this film with Gérard Depardieu playing a psychic with whom Isabelle is reviewing the men we have seen in the course of her story.

However, the problem here is casting.  It’s hard to accept Isabelle (at least as played by Binoche) would want to be involved with the men we have seen her with during the course of her story.

If they were handsome, debonair and/or witty, we could get it.  But, for the dogs she goes for, a much plainer actress than Binoche would have been necessary to make it believable.  As it is, there is a disconnect in plausibility that descends into pity and, then, boredom until the ending scene.

I love Juliette Binoche, but I can only give Un Beau Soleil Interieur (Let The Sun Shine In) a 2.7 out of 5.