{"id":295525,"date":"2021-07-10T03:53:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T00:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-the-divide-review-a-traumatic-trip-to-a-paris-er\/"},"modified":"2021-07-10T03:53:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T00:53:24","slug":"watch-the-divide-review-a-traumatic-trip-to-a-paris-er","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-divide-review-a-traumatic-trip-to-a-paris-er\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;The Divide&#8217; Review: A Traumatic Trip to a Paris ER"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dd2311d174\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dd2311d174\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-divide-review-a-traumatic-trip-to-a-paris-er\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Divide_Review_A_Traumatic_Trip_to_a_Paris_ER%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Divide&#8217; Review: A Traumatic Trip to a Paris ER&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-divide-review-a-traumatic-trip-to-a-paris-er\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Divide_Review_A_Traumatic_Trip_to_a_Paris_ER%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;The Divide&#8217; Review: A Traumatic Trip to a Paris ER&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-divide-review-a-traumatic-trip-to-a-paris-er\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-divide-review-a-traumatic-trip-to-a-paris-er\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Divide_Review_A_Traumatic_Trip_to_a_Paris_ER%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Divide&#8217; Review: A Traumatic Trip to a Paris ER&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Divide_Review_A_Traumatic_Trip_to_a_Paris_ER%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;The Divide&#8217; Review: A Traumatic Trip to a Paris ER&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Lesbian couple Julie and Rapha\u00eblle are on the brink of breaking up when the latter slips and smashes her elbow in \u201cThe Divide,\u201d but if you zoom out, all of France seems to be at similar risk of shattering. The French title for \u201cReplay\u201d director Catherine Corsini\u2019s 14th feature (her first to compete at Cannes since 2001), \u201cLa fracture,\u201d does a better job of suggesting all the ways the country and her characters can\u2019t be put back together again. But neither conveys the sheer exhaustion of spending a few hours in the emergency room of an overtaxed French public hospital.<\/p>\n<p>If this were an episode of \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d or \u201cER,\u201d we\u2019d know all the doctors, care about the patients and feel relatively certain that everything would reach some semblance of order by the end of the shift. But Corsini sets out to capture the pure chaos of a specific moment in time, just before COVID-19 made the hospitals really crazy (the pandemic was already underway when she shot), and in a way, it\u2019s knowing what\u2019s about to come that makes the unpleasantness of this storm before the superstorm seem bearable. Otherwise, as originally conceived, the movie might be too much \u2014 90-odd minutes of screaming and wailing, pain and self-pity \u2014 to the extent that even art-house-goers will need a morphine drip to get through it.<\/p>\n<p>The good <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>: At this particular hospital, treatments are free, covered by the very government the gilets jaunes have been protesting. The bad: Those \u201cyellow vest\u201d rallies \u2014 which simmered from November 2018 until the pandemic forced Paris into lockdown \u2014 reach a boil the same day Raf is rushed to the ER, and once the police start in on the demonstrators with their tear gas and clubs, the place fills up fast. The result is a whole lot of people shouting at each other, arguing about whose wounds are worse, whose grievances are greater and why the hell doesn\u2019t anybody stay together anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to Julie (Marina Fo\u00efs) and Raf (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) argue, it\u2019s easy to see that the relationship has run its course. Julie has announced plans to move out, and Raf\u2019s only recourse is to escalate the long-running argument between them: to howl and plead for another chance while hurling insults the whole way. Breakups are awful no matter how they h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en, but this one is particularly agonizing, and Corsini sends it into overtime by saddling Raf with a crisis she can exploit for sympathy.<\/p>\n<p>It takes a fairly long time to figure out the wavelength on which this combative dynamic registers as funny, but there\u2019s a perverse kind of humor to the way these two know each other\u2019s weak spots \u2014 and something genuinely touching about the way Julie tends to her partner, even though she\u2019d just as soon never see her again. That\u2019s a lot to manage while Paris melts down around them. Corsini does an impressive job re-creating the tension that existed in the streets as protesters challenged lines of police (police who, it should be said, were not the target of citizens\u2019 frustration, the way they were in the States, but were sent in to absorb the insults being hurled at the French state).<\/p>\n<p>Among the demonstrators, a truck driver named Yann (Pio Marma\u00ef) taunts the authorities, then takes a load of shrapnel to the leg when a tear-gas canister explodes. Thrust into the same hospital waiting room as Raf and more than a dozen other patients, he\u2019s still agitated and unwilling to settle down, turning his frustration against anyone who\u2019ll listen. He and Raf belong to completely different <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> classes, but they\u2019re not as different as they might think \u2014 nor is the staff, nearly all of whom are nonwhite (selected from a pool of real-life medical workers, a statement unto itself).<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals serve as one of those rare spaces \u2014 like train stations or the post office \u2014 where one can encounter people of practically any background, and \u201cThe Divide\u201d strategically treats the ER as a microcosm of French society where disparate citizens are forced to mix \u2026 or clash, as the case may be. Less stressful than the patient-to-patient interactions are the various crises demanding the staff\u2019s attention at any given moment, and multitask as they might, it\u2019s clear the hospital is overwhelmed \u2014 to say nothing of the system it represents.<\/p>\n<p>With an eye for the absurd (a weirdo who brings his dog in to have its stomach pumped, a ceiling that spontaneously collapses, very nearly re-injuring a man in a wheelchair), Corsini and co-writers Agn\u00e8s Feuvre and Laurette Polmanss write each scene with such authenticity, we scarcely realize how strategically some have been introduced to set up dramatic moments later on. As the police gather outside the doors and hospital management is forced to take sides, a nurse named Kim (A\u00efssatou Diallo Sagna, a non-professional actor, but professional healthcare worker) emerges as a favorite character \u2014 a source of endless patience and empathy, no matter how disrespectful the patients are toward her (one even takes her hostage in a particularly tense scene).<\/p>\n<p>The characters can be so grating, watching \u201cThe Divide\u201d feels like sticking your head in the garbage disposal. But as unwieldy as the multi-tentacled narrative can be \u2014 just think of the logistics required to stage it! \u2014 the experience adds up to something unshakeable. You might not care whether Julie and Raf end up together, or whether Yann gets his truck back to N\u00eemes in time. Heck, you might even wonder why, if they shoot horses when they break a leg, no one puts these characters out of our misery. But after it\u2019s over and you\u2019ve had time to absorb everything, it\u2019s like you actually spent a night in that ER yourself, with the scars to prove it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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