Woman Unknown: May el-Toukhy’s elegant postwar drama thrums with tension but rarely connects to anything deeper

Mathilde Arcel gives a committed performance as a young housemaid haunted by her relationship with a Germain soldier, but el-Toukhy’s Golden Lion-winner fails to give its heroine a personality beyond her predicament.

Woman Unknown: May el-Toukhy’s elegant postwar drama thrums with tension but rarely connects to anything deeper
Mathilde Arcel gives a committed performance as a young housemaid haunted by her relationship with a Germain soldier, but el-Toukhy’s Golden Lion-winner fails to give its heroine a personality beyond her predicament.