Scarlet (2022)

Shortly after WWI, a veteran (Raphael Thiery) returns home to find himself a widower and father to an infant daughter (played by 6 different actresses as the girl grows older: Victoire Battist, Sienna Gillibert, Suzanne Marquis, Anais Recorbet, Asia Brechat and finally Juliette Jouan as the adult) in rural Normandy. The daughter grows up as a lonely young woman who dreams of greater possibilities. Based on the novel SCARLET SAILS by Alexander Grin and directed by Pietro Marcello (MARTIN EDEN). This very slight fable has a great deal of charm and enchantment to it. But its lack of a cinematic linchpin to hold its heterogeneous content together works against it. I liked it well enough but it just doesn't stick with you. I kept waiting for it to merge its pieces into something resembling a cohesive whole by the film's end but instead, the movie just ended. With Noemie Lvovsky and Yolande Moreau.