Let Me Go
The Circle Award is a juried competition for selected films that deserve increased recognition. It is named in honor of Ted and Jim Pedas, founders of Washingtons' Circle Theaters, which set the standard for innovative quality film programming in Washington DC.
- Susan Barocas, Competition Coordinator, Writer/Producer
- Manjula Kumar, President/Executive Director Global Performing Arts
- Peggy Parsons, Film Curator Emerita, National Gallery of Art
- Gregory McGruder, National Geographic
- Felix Angel, Former Curator/Director, Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center
The jury of the Circle Award has selected as winner the film Let Me Go, the Swiss/French/Belgium production directed by Maxime Rappaz, starring Jeanne Balibar.
The film comes across as a wonderful example of cognitive dissonance, artistic interiority, and inner life, all of which adds to the conflicting human circumstances of a mature, female
character, and her dilemma of choosing between those she loves and the uncertainty of not knowing what she wants for the rest of her life.
Carefully written and directed, meticulously edited, and masterfully acted, the film is unique in its own private dimension, but at the same time is universal. All humans face throughout their lives the difficulty of making choices as part of the process of discovering possibilities for achieving existential balance and finding happiness.