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‘Adam’s Sake’ Review: Tense Belgian Hospital Drama Positions Director Laura Wandel as Dardenne Brothers’ Heir
A thought-provoking procedural about the nurse trying to keep a single mom from losing custody of her child, from the promising 'Playground' director.
From the get-go, we see Lucy attempting to mediate between the impatient doctor (Laurent Capelluto), an inflexible social worker (Claire Bodson) and desperate Rebecca, who’s been granted a narrow window of visitation on a probationary basis. Wandel could have repeated that same tactic in “Adam’s Sake,” but instead of portraying the action from the poor kid’s point of view, she aligns herself with Lucy, employing a similarly dynamic observational style to that of her producer-mentor Luc Dardenne. Nimbly covering the action via a small handheld camera, cinematographer Frédéric Noirhomme shadows Lucy and the other characters via long unbroken takes, occasionally staring at the back of her protagonist’s head (as Dardenne often did in “Rosetta”).
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