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for something a little more grown—up, head to curzon home cinema for the release of the psychological online theme seems to strike a particularly timely chord. based on a novel by camille laurens, it tells the story of a middle—aged divorcee, brilliantly played byjuliette binoche, who invents a fictitious online persona and becomes embroiled in a virtual relationship. recounting her tail to a psychiatrist, claire reveals how clara her younger alter ego began to take over her life, becoming more real than the real world. addicted to the thrill of electronic interaction, she recedes into the comfort of her phone and her computer, increasingly removed from the rules and responsibilities of the physical world of which she is evermore oblivious. intelligently directed by safy nebbou and hauntingly scored by his regular collaborator ibrahim maalouf, who you think i am is a twisty treat, a film that plays knowingly with narrative in a manner that recalls karel reisz‘s classic adaptation of the french lieutenant‘s woman. it's significant that claire is a professor of literature, well—versed i

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