Le Choix de Sofia

10/13/2024

LE CHOIX DE SOFIA ★★★★ By Adrian Perez, Lonely Wolf London International Film Festival, Spring 2021 ​"Le Choix De Sofia--which translates Sophie's Choice--finds its more "progressive" heroine confronted with a less horrific choice to her 1982 predecessor (in Meryl Streep), but a slow-burning and soul-destroying one nevertheless; one that much like Naomi Klein's famous quote disclaims upon the film's commencement, requires a total suspension of one's moral belief infrastructure at the expense of one's survival in a highly capitalist Matrix. Alain Deslongchamps triumphs in his architectural sculpting of a world that engulfs Sofia into unsustainable materialism, clinical corporate panorama and ultimately a self-confined solitary existence devoid of socio-emotional connection. Vé