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The situation is played with an off-hand glibness that barely leaves a lipstick mark on the surface of what the quartet are doing.

There is some verve in the early singing scenes, but overall I was left with the impression that breaking all those conventions was a long, hard slog.

The final act has multiple twists but by that time interest has waned

Anne Fontaine and co-scribe Benoît Graffin simply cannot make up their minds.

The film works at a depth that would drown Hollywood.

The Innocents may well be a historical film but it still has plenty of relevance today.

This is a film, not about marriage, or sex, although on the surface that's what it appears, but about lies and whether absolute truth in life and love is possible, or even preferable.

Unpicking a woolen jumper has more intrinsic merit.

There’s a lot of clever twists here, and plenty of knowing references to Snow White.