A huge hit in France, Guillaume Canet's thriller began life as a thoroughly American pulp novel by bestselling author Harlan Coben, which Canet and co-screenwriter Philippe Lefevre successfully relocated to France. The film delivers the requisite twists and turns, along with car chases, gun fights and soupcon of thug life, Paris style. But Canet cares more about what random brushes with violence do to ordinary people than how totally cool spark-spraying cars and thudding bullets look.
Pediatrician Alexandre Beck (Francois Cluzet) and social worker Margot Laurentin (Marie-Josee Croze) met as children at bucolic Lake Charmaine and carved their initials in th...
Released:
2008
Rated:
NR
Length:
125 mins