Secret Defense

A long and slow-paced anti-thriller from veteran French director Jacques Rivette, in which a woman sets out to avenge her father's death but winds up murdering an innocent bystander. Convinced by her brother that their father's fall from a speeding train was no accident, Sylvie (Sandrine Bonnaire) packs up a pistol and pays a visit to the country estate of the chief suspect: M. Walser (Jerzy Radziwilocz), her father's business partner and her mother's erstwhile lover. But when she arrives, Sylvie is interrupted by Walser's current mistress, Veronique (Laure Marsac). A struggle ensues, the gun goes off and Veronique is suddenly dead; Walser neatly disposes of the bo...