9/10
The most feminist movie I've ever seen is also notoriously one of the most difficult to endure. A 3 1/2 hour movie in which very little happens except the day-to-day monotonies of its title character. This was a movie I was born to like, and after reading about it for so long, it was nice to sit down and watch it and have it be exactly what I knew it would be. I don't feel like I watched a movie so much as I lived with Jeanne for 3 1/2 hours.
8.5/10
Not a big hit judging from the people streaming towards the exits throughout the movie, but I liked it a lot. It's a hard movie to peg - it starts out almost like a murder/mystery thriller, then becomes something like a family drama, all taking place in or around Malaysia (although filming took place in Cambodia and none of the actors speak Malaysian despite claiming to be Malaysian - yeah it's weird). The film is very slow, is bizarrely paced, and wholly unpretentious - but I was hooked from beginning to end.
