This film was fantastic but one thing I found strange was Marie is actually gorgeous, which I know we are supposed to see her as an ugly old scar faced woman who had her face shoved in a mirror when she was young but she is really beautiful (apart from the white hair). Or maybe is just me who thinks that.
Still a good film and again a foreign film delivers the goods.
No, you hit the mark there, indeed she was too pretty perhaps. I even liked the white hair. So did the blind guy, he found her pretty. But she didn't find herself attractive, she is much too traumatized and can only be happy with him when he's blind. So the filmmakers didn't want her to be really ugly, but to give here a trauma that makes her hate how she looks. A bit like Carrie in the De Palma film...only supposedly unattractive.
I do think that the makeup was incredibly well done. If you know how Halina Reijn normally looks (definitely even prettier), she was almost unrecognizable here. I think it's also in the acting, knowing how extraverted she normally is, in here you can see the fear and reclusiveness in her eyes.
It would have been a somewhat different story if Marie had been ugly, since the blind one would reject her once he got his vision. But the essence would have been the same. I think that the essence of the story was, that only when he was blind, their love was pure. So they would have been happier if he never received that treatment of his father.
If this would have been a Hollywood film she'd probably be supergorgeous and they'd live happily ever after, but I think the ending was more honest this way.
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