In Catherine Corsini's drama 'An Impossible Love', a woman's life is shaped by her affair with an extremely selfish man. Later, he abuses their child. There should be a lot of good material here: about how society normalises male selfishness, and how we can blind ourselves to the unbearable truth and semi-consciously assist an abuser. However, the male character is so outrageous that any subtlety is lost, while the female protagonist cannot truly be blamed except for the stupidity of being in love - morally, she's unimpeachable. The result is a film that says rather less than it might have done. Meanwhile, the economic consequences of being abandoned as a single parent are basically ignored; overall, the film is surprisingly painless given its dark subject matter.
Review of An Impossible Love
