A review of the recent French film “Who You Think I Am”
Juliette Binoche is a talented and beautiful actress who has now appeared in over 60 French-language and English-language films. I really admire her work and must have seen over a dozen of her roles.In this French-language work from 2019, she plays Claire, a 50 year old professor of French literature, who uses Facebook to create a false persona of Clara, a 24 year old working in the fashion business. The framing device for the story is a series of conversations between Claire and her psychotherapist.
The reasons for, and the consequences of, this subterfuge are only slowly revealed in a tale about identity, illusion, obsession and abandonment. Binoche, as always, is captivating.