WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

dan-259-431343 Easily one of the best films I have ever seen. Completely unexpected, phenomenally acted and directed, superb writing, intense, and extremely moving. LOVED this film. Watch it like I did without knowing anything other than a strong recommendation from a friend and see what you think.

im_shan_i this film was based on a novel by Harlan Coben which is among my favorite authors. I didn't aware of this film, so I read the novel before watching the movie. all I can say that the movie had good and bad things side by side. if you read the original novel and then watch the movie you can easily find out that the novel and the characters are more deep than the ones in the movie. after I finished the novel, I was shocked and as I remember, I couldn't forget the movie that I had read!. yes the novel had given me such a great feeling. anyway, the director could work on characters a little bit more. such a complex scenario with complex connections between characters need to be displayed and told a little bit more, so someone without knowledge about the story could understand it. if you think that the movie was great, please consider reading the original book with the same name as the movie by Harlan Coben. He has more than 20 great novels like this, full of mysterious things which make you love him :)

dromasca The music in the opening scene of this French movie should give a strong hint to the viewer about what to expect. It's a soul song which combines oddly with the first shots of an apparently idyllic gathering in the French countryside. What follows is however all but idyllic. It's a complex thriller drama about a murder that happened eight years before, a love story and a disappearance that refuses to heal. One of the most intelligent and most sensitive stories in the genre that I have seen lately.It may come as a surprise that the film is French, but inspired by a novel and a story written by Harlan Coben. The fine author of mystery novels and thrillers had amazingly few encounters with the movies, this being as far as I know his only novel brought to the big screens. The approach taken by director Guillaume Canet places the story in France (of course) but none of the characters belongs to any specific localization. Beyond the love story and beyond the sophisticated detective story that is smartly and consistently built, there is a quality of the making that keeps the interest (both intellectual and emotional) awake for the duration of the more than two hours that the film lasts (another Hollywood influence?).Much of the quality can be attributed to the excellent team of actors, and first among equally good François Cluzet - one of these actors who make you feel their emotions without any apparent effort, just by being himself. The hand of the director is light, he just does professionally his job enjoying the fine team of actors and the intelligent script he has at hands and making us enjoy the story as well. Now I just hope that the studios in Hollywood will not reclaim back this film for an American remake.

Robert J. Maxwell It's curious to see and hear Kristin Scott Thomas comfortably speaking perfect French. If I remember nothing else of this movie, I'll remember that. Oh, and the fact that yet another French movie has cast as its star a man with a plain, ordinary face, François Cluzet, instead of a glamor boy. I love it.It's a kind of murder mystery, in which Cluzet's wife was murdered years ago and he suddenly begins getting email hints from her. And then, man, does the plot get complicated.The film was so highly rated here at IMDb.com that I don't know why I didn't enjoy it much. Too many twists in the plot. I couldn't keep up with the conversational exchanges on the screen -- Parisians speak too quickly and there are too many idiomatic expressions -- and the subtitles came and went before I finished reading them. It was all not only confusing but rather humiliating.The various threads were finally pulled together at the very end, like an Agatha Christie mystery.But I have to mention Jean Rochefort as the bad guy. What a splendid face. The features of some pointy-nosed rodent but with sad and sympathetic eyes.