A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

1998, Movie, R, 120 mins

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries: Review

Adapted from Kaylie Jones' semi-autobiographical novel (her father, James Jones, wrote From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line), this elegiac, tonally diverse but not entirely successful piece is nonetheless a delightful aberration from the Merchant-Ivory team. The painterly sequence of shots that open the film, languidly framing a beautiful, pregnant young French woman (Virginie Ledoyen) as she loafs and writes in her journal at a beach house, could easily come from a c... read more leave a comment