Mr Spitz goes beyond mere history and provides a full, human portrait of Julia.

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There is probably an element of truth in all three suggestions, for the Wordsworth who emerges from this portrait is a contradictory human being whose motives are rarely pure and never simple.

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And yet here, Audiard paints a magnificently raw portrait, not only of survival, but of that most precious of human qualities -- the capacity to thrive, adapt and ultimately to transcend.

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