The encounter hits her like a heart attack. On the way to work, radio presenter Sara (Juliette Binoche) recognizes her ex, who is sitting on his motorcycle in a parking lot, kissing a woman goodbye. When she is alone in the elevator of the radio building, she collapses and has to gasp for air. “It’s starting again,” she will say later, “love, fear, the phone next to the bed. The feeling of being wet.” – “With love and determination” tells of erotic desire as of an illness.
“With love and determination” in the cinema: a monster called desire – culture
