Synopsis
In their blue hotel room, a clandestine couple of two married lovers plan an impossible future, as death shutters their already frail tranquillity. Now, the noose tightens more and more around innocents and sinners; but, was there a crime?
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Cast
- Mathieu AmalricJulien Gahyde
- Léa DruckerDelphine Gahyde
- Stéphanie CléauEsther Despierre
- Laurent PoitrenauxLe juge d'instruction
- Serge BozonLe gendarme
- BlutchLe psychologue
- Mona JaffartSuzanne Gahyde
- Véronique AlainLa mère de Nicolas
- Paul KramerL'avocat de Julien
- Alain FraitagL'avocat d'Esther
Recommendations
- 83
IndieWire
In telling his story, Amalric is greatly aided by his ace cinematographer, Christophe Beaucarne, whose images pick up on a great many tiny but telling details, as if life were a mosaic composed of an almost infinite number of parts that are all equally important for the bigger picture. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
While this may be the actor-director’s most polished feature yet, it’s far from a traditional suspense movie. - 80
The Telegraph
Everything’s told in shards, and Amalric does very well to create a sense of emotional continuum amid all the procedural detail. His own performance is fantastic, jittery and dishevelled. - 75
Slant Magazine
The film abounds in guilt and grief, reveling in a general sense of hopelessly broken social connection. - 70
The New Yorker
The great virtue of the movie is its length: a fat-free seventy-six minutes. - 67
The Playlist
It’s a meticulous and tightly coiled cautionary tale, but it’s hard to imagine any of its characters having life outside the narrow confines of its stagy plot, or the edges of its carefully composed frames. - 60
CineVue
As you'd expect from an actor-director of Amalric's pedigree, the performances are brilliant throughout and Mathieu himself has a wonderful eye for the telling tick and/or the revealing gesture. - 60
The Guardian
Amalric's handling is cool, studied and perhaps a little self-conscious. But he does a good job of showing how adultery is a noose that tightens at the throat even before an actual crime is committed - at which point the film grows altogether less interesting.
