Her Name Is Sabine Review

One of the most arresting directorial debuts of recent times, actress Sandrine Bonnaire’s profile of her younger sister is intimate and unflinching. Cross-cutting footage of Sabine as a free-spirited young woman, Bonnaire explains how she declined during a five-year stay in a psychiatric hospital that failed to diagnose her autism and psycho-infantility. Yet she also celebrates the lost Sabine, and the scene in which she shows her clips of their long-ago trip to New York is heart-breaking. Clearly campaigning for more care homes like the one she co funded for her sister, Bonnaire is also dealing with the realisation that sometimes love isn’t enough.