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This familiar-sounding melodrama works because of the extraordinary performance, in the title role, by Alba August, a young actress whose every emotion is made manifest, like passing clouds or a burst of sunshine, on her uncannily expressive face.
This film about an exemplary woman, made by women, is as much a pleasure as it is a lesson.
Despite convincing performances, the film is hampered by its stylistic and moral conventionality.