Synopsis
When his long-time disappeared father is entering his life again, Jean-Luc, a successful doctor, has no option but to face his own life story. Will he ever be able to forget and forgive?
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Cast
- Michel BouquetMaurice
- Charles BerlingJean-Luc
- Natacha RégnierIsa
- Amira CasarMyriem
- Stéphane GuillonPatrick
- François Berléandun patient
- Hubert KoundéJean-Toussaint
- Karole RocherLaetitia
- Marie Miclala prostituée
- Nicole Evansla patiente
Recommendations
- 100
Salon
The most disturbing and effective thriller I've seen in many moons. Rarely, indeed almost never, is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite, unfakable sense of cinema. - 91
Entertainment Weekly
The script is a steady accretion of small stabs to the heart, propelling the gorgeous performances of Berling, Regnier, and especially the 76-year-old French cinema veteran Bouquet, whose every faint smile is killing. - 90
L.A. Weekly
The result is an intelligent, moving and invigorating film, just the thing for adults bored with the shock-horror posturing to be found in the work of so many young European directors. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
Not about murder in the literal sense, although that seems a possibility. It is about a man who would like to kill his father, and who may have been killed spiritually by his father. - 80
The A.V. Club
Fontaine gives her film the tone of a psychological thriller, with the potential of violence always lurking beneath the surface. - 80
TV Guide Magazine
Fontaine's thoughtful character-driven screenplay is the perfect vehicle for Berling and Bouquet and both are superb. As father and son, they play off each another in fascinating ways as the film moves towards its perfectly modulated, intriguingly ambiguous final moment. - 80
Chicago Reader
Fontaine and Jacques Fieschi collaborated on the screenplay, and Jocelyn Pook's chilly string score nicely evokes the menace underlying the film's plush settings. - 75
Chicago Tribune
Cold, nervy and memorable.
