Floating on a seamless and deep ocean appears to be the most blissful lover in the world, Sara and Jean, respectively played by super French movie stars Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon, usher you to a complicated love story with love history embracing that you may find ordinary or intricate depending on how you see and deal with experiences.

Sara, a middle-aged modern woman working as a radio host talking with important guests in relation to sensitive and serious world issues, and she is totally competent in fulfilling the job. Jean, a rather mature-aged man who is out of work with difficulty in finding employment hindered by his imprisonment background, at the same time, he is a father of a teenage son with his ex-wife. Sara and Jean met nine years ago and fell in love and accordingly cohabited with each other, making the loving nest they build full of warmth and coziness attracting envy.

‘Both Sides of The Blade’ speaks volumes for love and hatred with the abovementioned lover as effective proof. These blissful two can never be the same when Sara one day gets a glance at a man on the street that renders her totally out of her wits. The man is François (Grégoire Colin), her ex-boyfriend who cohabited with her for a period of time before breaking up. Such a glance at him makes her and Jean cannot but fall apart in their couple-like path.

Actually, the story is not as tremendous as to be something that can draw sensationalism; however, Claire Denis, the director of the film, has intentionally driven us to all nerves with the nervous plotlines she routes the two main protagonists in addition to the man whom Sara not only loves but addicts.

Quarrels between Sara and Jean are exceptionally impressive. We cannot know a woman who is more than competent to manage face-to-face conversations with important guests in her job will go irrational, insane, and hysterical when arguing with a man who has had innumerable intimate, contented, and happy sex with her in bed. This really makes us cannot but baffle about the function of sex in a couple.

What’s worse, Sara does tell every man in the world that women are extremely emotional creatures, they can, in a quarrel, brutally point a finger at you accusing you of controlling her despite it is by no means a fact. Sara is so. I can tell Jean has taken a grip on the quarrel. Never has a derogative word come out from him to attempt to degrade Sara’s morals. He is a man of quality.

A triangle love story standing on the top level of three mature-aged people renders the whole matter intricate and a bit ugly in terms of human nature. Love is not any kind of greed as the movie showcases how Sara attempts to own two men and eventually falls between two stools.

I would find the movie lesson-based and we will grasp something deep from it and will go redefine ‘love’ with our wits or with both sides of the blade.