You can't possibly be prepared for the gut-wrenching, emotional experience of the brilliant new French drama I've Loved You So Long, the must-see movie of 2008.

Story

With sparse emotion and very slowly evolving detail, writer/director Philippe Claudel's mood drama reveals long-held secrets and passions simmering under the radar. It's a family story sparked by the return of a woman, Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas), to her small town after spending 15 years in prison for an unspeakable crime that…

Want a master class in film acting? Check out Kristin Scott Thomas as Juliette, a doctor just out of prison in this spellbinder from writer-director Philippe Claudel. Juliette has been invited by her sister, Léa (Elsa Zylberstein), to share her home in France, along with Léa's husband, Luc (Serge Hazanavicius), their two adopted Vietnamese daughters and Luc's sickly father.

It's delicate, mysterious business, starting with the reason Juliette was locked up for 15 years, and I won't spoil it…