Synopsis

Academy Award nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient, Gosford Park) gives the performance of her career in the highly acclaimed drama I’ve Loved You So Long. This extraordinary debut feature by award-winning novelist Philippe Claudel is a profoundly touching and thought-provoking story of familial struggles and redemption, and a captivating exploration of the courage it takes to rebuild a broken life.

Scott Thomas stars as Juliette, a distant and withdrawn woman with a hard shell. After being away for many years she has returned home to stay with her younger sister Lea (Elsa Zylberstein) who is seemingly her polar opposite. Indeed, the two sisters are barely more than strangers, as for 15 years the rejected Juliette has had no ties with her relations, and she knows nothing of Lea’s family or busy life.

Still, it's a cautiously happy reunion. The two siblings slowly begin to rebuild their relationship, and Juliette does her best to carry on with the everyday; searching for a job, entertaining her nieces, swimming at the local pool, even developing a friendship with one of Lea's colleagues - albeit one she keeps at arms length.

But everyone has questions.

Just where has this beautiful and elusive woman been hiding for so long, and what has she been doing? As circumstances surrounding Juliette’s long absence gradually unfold, painful secrets are brought to the surface and threaten to devastate her life all over again...