{"id":347607,"date":"2025-09-02T05:21:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/02\/the-courageous-review-a-strikingly-realistic\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T05:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:21:42","slug":"the-courageous-review-a-strikingly-realistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/02\/the-courageous-review-a-strikingly-realistic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Courageous review \u2013 a strikingly realistic\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.craft.cloud\/26ed9c78-feb7-4ee6-8ddf-262fd7bafb2d\/assets\/tco\/images\/The-Courageous.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Single mother Jule (Oph\u00e9lia Kolb) takes her three children to a\u00a0restaurant and promises to be back in five minutes. A\u00a0long time passes without Jule\u2019s return, so the young children decide to find their own way home. While ten-year-old Claire (Jasmine Kalisz Saurer) and eight-year-old Lo\u00efc (Paul Besnier) bicker over the best way to locate their mother, six-year-old Sami (Arthur Devaux) crosses the motorway, and a\u00a0terrifying shot shows him standing alone in the middle while cars fly\u00a0by.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Scenes such as this one make for uncomfortable viewing, but Jasmin Gordon\u2019s debut feature film, <i>The Courageous<\/i>, refuses to shy away from the chaotic reality of grasping for a\u00a0better life. Throughout the film, lingering camerawork emphasises the lush green wilderness which entices Jule as she struggles to provide for her family in a\u00a0wealthy Swiss town. Gordon shows the viewer what the children do not see, but are becoming increasingly aware of as the summer unfolds: their mother\u2019s hardships. Yet the film has a\u00a0warmth to it which emerges from its close-knit relationships, often expressed through gestures and facial expressions rather than dialogue. Kolb captures Jule\u2019s anger and exhaustion while ultimately portraying her as an affectionate mother who will go to extreme lengths for her children \u2013 if Jule is rebellious and at times selfish, resilience and determination are the other side of that\u00a0coin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-10 bg-[var(--color-background-accent)] font-primary text-[16px] font-bold rounded-[16px] p-8\">\n<h3 class=\"!mb-4 text-[24px]\">Get more Little White\u00a0Lies<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '844332942710770');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/the-courageous\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Single mother Jule (Oph\u00e9lia Kolb) takes her three children to a\u00a0restaurant and promises to be back in five minutes. 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