With A Friend Like Harry

Patricia Highsmith — that misanthropic scribe of sociopathic male bonding behind The Talented Mr. Ripley — would have loved this. After a sweltering afternoon's drive spent bickering with his wife Claire (Mathilde Seigner) and three squabbling daughters, struggling teacher Michel (Laurent Lucas) pulls into a rest stop. There, in the men's room, he runs into Harry (Sergi Lopez), a snappy, smiling stranger who claims to be an old high-school acquaintance. Harry invites himself and his curvaceous girlfriend Plum (Sophie Guillemin) to Michel and Claire's ramshackle country house, and before their hosts quite know what's happening, Harry and Plum have ins...