The Innocent

This effort from the stylish Techine is far less successful than his two previous pictures, RENDEZVOUS and SCENE OF THE CRIME. Beautifully photographed (by Berta) in a stunning widescreen, the film opens on the Mediterranean French coast, where Bonnaire has just arrived from the North, visiting the region (for the first time) to attend her sister's wedding to an Arab and to find her young runaway brother, a deaf-mute who works the streets as a pickpocket under the charge of an Arab thief, Kechiche. The only person around who understands the young boys' problems is Brialy, a married man with a penchant for Arab boys. When Bonnaire later meets Brialy's bisexual son, ...