Synopsis
Al, a young man from a modest background is about to marry his boss’ daughter, along with succeeding him as the head of a car dealership. One night, while coming back from his bachelor party, he is guilty of a hit-and-run accident, urged by his two childhood friends present in the car. The next day, gnawed with guilt, Al decides to inquire about his victim. What he does not know is that Juliette, a young woman, has witnessed the entire accident from her balcony.
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Cast
- Raphaël PersonnazAl
- Clotilde HesmeJuliette
- Arta DobroshiVera
- Reda KatebFranck
- Alban AumardMartin
- Adèle HaenelMarion
Recommendations
- 63
Slant Magazine
A little too deliberately balanced in its depiction of its three leads, but it largely makes up the difference with its informed grounding in the economic and social terrain of contemporary France. - 60
The New York Times
Each thread of the plot is followed to its dangling, ragged conclusion in a movie that may be painful to watch but that maintains a chilly integrity. - 40
Variety
A glossy, well-meaning but dramatically listless study of class relations in contemporary Paris. - 40
Time Out
What is confusing is why director Catherine Corsini thinks anyone should invest in a po-faced bourgie drama with so little to offer. - 40
Village Voice
An overdrawn soap opera about everyone's simultaneous fear of and longing for consequences. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
This stiflingly restrained French dirge about morality, guilt and atonement is chilly and constipated, mistaking ponderousness for intensity.
