L'Appartement

A huge hit in France, first-time writer-director Gilles Mimouni's Hitchcockian thriller was remade in 2004 as the pallid, Chicago-set WICKER PARK. Sleek young adman Max (Vincent Cassel), who's about to leave for Tokyo on an important business trip, is having lunch with his elegant girlfriend (soon to be fiancee) Muriel (Sandrine Kiberlain), his boss and two Japanese clients when a familiar voice jolts him into an unwelcome flashback. The woman using the restaurant's enclosed pay phone sounds exactly like his ex-girlfriend, Lisa (Monica Bellucci), who broke his heart two years early by vanishing without so much as a goodbye. Back then, Max worked in a video-equ...