Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Kirpianuscus small domestic scenes from a family's every day life. a meeting. and image of a profound crisis. a film who could have different definitions. thriller, crime, art film, psychological. but who remains admirable work for the impeccable performance of Kristin Scott Thomas and Daniel Auteuil. for the image of reality beyond the words. for a form of delicacy in define the events like a painting in water colors. a film about values and about fear to lost sense of life. a film who is really seductive not exactly for story but for details. the last scene is a good example. not different by many films with similar theme, it is really beautiful for the doses of drama and for the inspired use of silence. a film about a family. its crisis. and the hope.

Brigid O Sullivan (wisewebwoman) French Neurosurgeon Paul (Auteil) and his English wife Lucia (Scott Thomas) have a chilly marriage going. Lucia keeps complaining she is not fulfilled, she's bored as if it is all Paul's fault. Their son is grown with a child of his own. Everything appears stilted, strained. It is difficult to engage with them, their lives are so bourgeoisie and privileged.There's a café close to Paul's office where a young Algerian server - another Lou (Bekthi) - tells him he operated on her as a young girl which he denies as it's not his field of surgery.That's the set up. Paul starts to stalk her, finds out she's a prostitute and a liar.I imagine the deeper meaning is that he is hunting for his past but it is all a terrible muddle in the end. The script falls apart in the police station as it pushes the disbelief metre several feet off the ground.Don't waste your time even though the leads give it their almighty best. It just never gelled for me.4 out of 10.

leplatypus I watched it to complete Leila's filmography but this movie is so far her worst participation. It's not that she's bad because for one time she acts beyond her roots but this movie is just meaningless. It collects all the same, old, abused and boring clichés of French drama as it's about the hollow life of a bourgeois couple: we have their total traits: the housewife, the prestigious doctor husband, the tennis matches, the opera, the on shoulders pull, the successful kids and even if they got all this, they feel empty, they are unable to communicate and they want to add fire to their « poor » life. Sure, every body shares this spleen for a perfect life, a life when dreams come true but on the other hand, i really don't care about the bed stories of the bourgeois. It's all the more painful here that practically all the scenes are totally useless as the characters sits, walks, drives alone and in the silence ! Maybe some appreciate this but sorry I skip it

GUENOT PHILIPPE That's exactly what I waited for. Daniel Auteuil is here as excellent as ever. I have always considered him as one of the best french actors ever. The poignant and sensitive tale of a wealthy surgeon who has a boring life, boring wife and family, a job that brings him to burn out and whose fate leads him to meet a young woman.The following is totally unforeseeable. The relationship that develops between the two of them is not what you might expect. It is so odd that it is impossible to describe. Offbeat at the most, but so pure and beautiful. This is not a romance. Unfortunately, the - near - ending is very abrupt and may disturb the audiences. But it doesn't destroy the story's quality.It is only unusual, far from you may have waited for in such kind of stories.