The Braid (film)

The Braid
The Braid
	Theatrical release poster
French	La Tresse
Directed by	Laetitia Colombani
Screenplay by	Laetitia Colombani; Sarah Kaminsky (collaboration);
Based on	The Braid; by Laetitia Colombani
Produced by	Olivier Delbosc; Marc Missonnier; Richard Lalonde; Nicola Giuliano; Francesca Cima; Carlotta Calori; Viola Prestieri;
Starring	Kim Raver; Fotinì Peluso; Mia Maelzer;
Cinematography	Ronald Plante
Edited by	Albertina Lastera
Music by	Ludovico Einaudi
Production; companies	Curiosa Films; Moana Films; Forum Films; Indigo Film; SND; Panache Productions; La Compagnie Cinématographique; France 2 Cinéma; Proximus; VOO; BE TV;
Distributed by	SND (France); Indigo Film (Italy); Anga Distribution (Belgium); Sphere Films (Canada);
Release date	29 November 2023 (France);
Running time	121 minutes
Countries	France; Canada; Italy; Belgium;
Languages	Hindi; Italian; English
Box office	$9.6 million

The Braid (French: La Tresse) is a 2023 melodramatic film directed by Laetitia Colombani based on her 2017 novel of the same name.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

Filming began on 11 March 2022 in India.^[9] It was theatrically released in France on 29 November 2023.^[10]

Plot

Young mother Susmita lives in India and dreams of giving her little daughter an education, but her husband does not want to change anything. Italian Giulia, after an incident with her father, realizes that the family is left with large debts. A talented lawyer from Canada, Sarah, is about to receive a long-awaited promotion, but a serious diagnosis interferes with her plans. Three women, three secrets. They have never met and do not even know that in fact they are connected by something unique, an interweaving of destinies.

Cast

India

Mia Maelzer as Smita
Sajda Pathan as Lalita, daughter of Smita
Nehpal Gautam as Nagaraj, husband of Smita

Italy

Fotinì Peluso as Giulia
Avi Nash as Kamal
Manuela Ventura as Giulia's mother
Mimmo Mancini as Giulia's father
Celeste Savino as Francesca
Guendalina Losito as Adela
Francesco Marinelli as Gino
Lucia Zotti as Nonna

Canada

Kim Raver as Sarah
Sarah Abbott as Hannah
Adrian Doroslovac as Ethan
Dorian Doroslovac as Simon
Sarah Camacho as Pamela
Damon Runyan as Josh
Katharine King So as Ines
Marcel Jeannin as Gary
Kenny Wong as Jeffrey
Lydia Zadel as Maeva
Katherine Adams as the judge
Laetitia Colombani as Hannah's teacher

Reception

Critical response

In particular, Augustin Pietron-Locatelli, in Télérama, notes an absence of staging and an abuse of clichés, “dripping” music for a film which parallels stories which are not comparable.^[11] Andrew Parker (TheGATE.ca) notes: "The Braid raises some cultural and ethical questions that are left dangling in the breeze in favour of sending things out on a somewhat uplifting note after asking a lot of the audience up to that point".^[12] In Russia, the film was released theatrically on 30 May 2024. Film critic of Kommersant publication Yulia Shagelman considered the film "Sarah’s line was the most elaborate and reliable, but for some reason it’s not very easy to be touched by how an Indian beggar, without knowing it, helped a woman with money and access to modern free (after all, we’re talking about Canada) healthcare".^[13]

References

^ "La Tresse". Mymovies.it. 2023.
^ "La Tresse". Cinemaniacs. 2023.
^ "La Tresse". Sphere Films Canada. 2023.
^ "The Braid (2023)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
^ "La Tresse" (PDF). Unifrance. 2023.
^ "The Braid movie review – based on the best-selling novel". Tribute. 18 January 2024.
^ Anne-Frédérique Hébert-Dolbec (19 January 2024). "La tresse: la misère en spectacle". Le Devoir.
^ "The Braid". IFFSA Toronto. 12 October 2023.
^ "Laëtitia Colombani débute le tournage de "La Tresse"". Le Film français. 11 March 2022.
^ ""La Tresse" : Laetitia Colombani adapte son best-seller dans un film en "hommage au courage des femmes"". Franceinfo (in French). 27 November 2023. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
^ "La Tresse". Télérama. 27 November 2023.
^ "The Braid Review. Under the Same Sky". TheGATE.ca. 19 January 2024.
^ "Точка косы". Kommersant (in Russian). 29 May 2024.

External links

The Braid at IMDb
The Braid at Rotten Tomatoes
"The Braid (La Tresse)". The American French Film Festival. 2023.

[1] "La Tresse". Mymovies.it. 2023.

[2] "La Tresse". Cinemaniacs. 2023.

[3] "La Tresse". Sphere Films Canada. 2023.

[BOM-4] "The Braid (2023)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 26 July 2024.

[tresse-5] "La Tresse" (PDF). Unifrance. 2023.

[theca-6] "The Braid movie review – based on the best-selling novel". Tribute. 18 January 2024.

[tresse1-7] Anne-Frédérique Hébert-Dolbec (19 January 2024). "La tresse: la misère en spectacle". Le Devoir.

[fest-8] "The Braid". IFFSA Toronto. 12 October 2023.

[loc-9] "Laëtitia Colombani débute le tournage de "La Tresse"". Le Film français. 11 March 2022.

[10] ""La Tresse" : Laetitia Colombani adapte son best-seller dans un film en "hommage au courage des femmes"". Franceinfo (in French). 27 November 2023. Retrieved 4 June 2024.

[tele-11] "La Tresse". Télérama. 27 November 2023.

[can-12] "The Braid Review. Under the Same Sky". TheGATE.ca. 19 January 2024.

[kom-13] "Точка косы". Kommersant (in Russian). 29 May 2024.

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