French writer-director Dominik Moll's latest thriller opened up this year's Venice Days sidebar.
), a new thriller from French writer-director Dominik Moll that opened up this year's Venice Days sidebar. Spreading a murder mystery across two continents and chopping it up into astyle narrative, the film can be a bit low on suspense in places but remains intriguing enough to keep you guessing till the last twist. Art houses looking for upscale genre fare could give this well-structured whodunit a look.
Adapting Colin Niel’s novel with his regular co-writer Gilles Marchand, Moll crafts a seemingly simple plot that gets increasingly tangled as it jumps from one character to another, taking some rather surprising turns but managing to make sense of it all by the last scene. When we first meet homecare nurse Alice and her humdrum farmer husband, Michel , on the windswept plains of central France, they seem like your typical unhappy middle-aged couple. Alice is having an affair with the taciturn, slightly on-the-spectrum Joseph , who’s one of her patients, while Michel spends all day stuck in his office apparently handling the farm’s accounts.
But when a neighbor, Evelyne , turns up missing, her car abandoned on a local road, we start wondering how these people could be involved in her disappearance. Was Evelyne actually Michel’s mistress, which may explain why he arrives home one night with a bloody nose? Or did Joseph wind up killing her, which may explain why his dog has somehow been shot to death?
These and other questions will slowly but surely be answered as we switch from Alice’s point of view to that of Joseph and then to the young waitress Marion , whose relationship with the victim opens the film up into a whole new territory that raises even more questions. And then we switch viewpoints again, this time to Armand , a 20-something grifter in the Ivory Coast who could be the person tying everyone else together.
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