FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Olivier Assayas - Clean 

Emily is a driven woman. Driven by inner turmoil, dissatisfaction with herself and the decisions that brought her here. Her mind seems to be somewhere else entirely. Emily thinks of the only thing that brings her peace: Heroin. She and her partner Lee used to be pop stars. but the fame faded and eventually they found themselves in a motel in Canada. After an argument, Emily drives out into the night and gets the drugs. After a gunshot, she sleeps in the car. She returns to the motel and finds Lee dead. He died after an overdose. Should she now quietly leave town? Emily, however, gets herself arrested for drug possession and sentenced to six months in jail. Emily is played by Maggie Cheung with such intense desperation as few actresses could have managed. She always maintains her personal authority, even when she is broke. In prison, of course, she also loses custody of her beloved boy. Emily tells herself that she is only not raising him because it is better for Jay. But secretly she knows: she is defeated, her life destroyed. She has lost her boy. We only find out what she must have been like in the past by watching her old boyfriend. Emily's life through her eyes. Emily lives in the moment. She may be a broken person at the moment, but in the future.... Anyone who wonders Cheung's countless martial arts films will notice that all her roles required her to embody a tall, serious beauty. Clean is different. Her Emily is restless. Restless in smoking, walking, pleading, protesting. Cheung always holds herself back. She never overacts, because Emily is always closer to her lowest point than her highest. And when her little boy accuses Emily of killing his father, she reacts - who knows? - But she reacts like someone who will eventually become a good mother. Tomorrow. Tomorrow we start again. Every morning.