‘A Woman’s Life’ Review: Finely Textured Character Study Does More Than What It Says on the Tin, Thanks to Léa Drucker’s Superb Performance

“Anaïs in Love,” the 2021 debut feature by writer-director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, was a sunny portrait of idealized French womanhood that turned cooler and stranger the longer you stayed with it: Its title character, outwardly a maddeningly winsome ingenue of a particularly Gallic stripe, revealed layers of insecurity and instability we didn’t see coming, and the […]