2023 · drama · comedy
The Braid
Directed by Laetitia Colombani2h 1m2023
India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her father’s workshop. When he has an accident, she discovers that the family business is ruined. Canada. Sarah, a successful lawyer, is about to be promoted to the head of her firm when she learns that she is ill. Three lives, three women, three continents. Three battles to fight. Although they don’t know each other, Smita, Giulia and Sarah are unknowingly linked by their most intimate and singular bond.
Our read: The Braid (2023) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
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