'With Love and Fury')[3] is a 2022 French romantic drama film directed by Claire Denis, who wrote the screenplay with Christine Angot.

In early January 2021, Wild Bunch International announced the release of several French films despite the strict restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

"[26] Denis told an interviewer at the event, "I tried today to speak with the distribution company because I think 'Fire' is not completely fitting for the film.

The website's critical consensus reads, "Elevated by impeccable work from Claire Denis and Juliette Binoche, Both Sides of the Blade is a relationship drama that cuts deep.

"[20] According to Metacritic, which assigned a weighted average score of 73 out of 100 based on 27 critics, the film received "generally favorable" reviews.

[32] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film three out of five stars, writing, "It's intriguing if contrived and anticlimactic, though acted at the highest pitch of sensual conviction.

"[33] David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter praised the film's "psychologically astute" screenplay, Gautier's "probing" cinematography and Denis' "laser-focused" direction for laying bare the characters' emotions "with fluid modulation of tone".

Rooney also praised the film's "rigorous rejection of sentimentality" and its sex scenes for "involving middle-aged bodies captured with such unselfconscious naturalness and grace.

"[34] Guy Lodge of The Guardian praised the "unusually elegant geometry" of the film's love triangle as well as Denis' "rich, nuanced exploration of female desire from the fault lines of an ostensibly simple narrative", and complimented Binoche and Lindon on the emotional range of their performances.

[4] Kevin Maher of The Times gave the film four stars out of five, writing, "Binoche, typically, is on commanding form, working once more with a film-maker who seems intuitively aware of how to harness her every glance or grimace.