![]() ![]() Catherine Deneuve makes a stately appearance in cameo as Paul's partner and mentor, and Niels Arestrup (the ageing con in A Prophet, and the similarly venerable gangster opposite Duris in The Beat My Heart Skipped) gives a witty, louche performance as a hard-drinking scallywag who takes an interest in Paul. The tension explodes into violence, and Paul stakes everything on a terrifying plan. Romain Duris is on intense, smouldering form as Paul, the wealthy corporate lawyer who secretly despises his own bland, conformist life he has artistic longings and a general discontent exacerbated by dislike of his neighbour: a dishevelled, bohemian individual whom he suspects of having an affair with his wife. It is based on the 1997 novel by Douglas Kennedy, a work that predates the ubiquity of Google and particularly Google Images, an issue that the film tries its best to solve. ![]() T his Highsmithian thriller from France is brash and watchable, if more than a little absurd: you'll have to indulge a medium-sized plot-hole. ![]()
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