Silence and music have an interesting relationship, a fact oft reiterated but rarely practised. Here's a film that respects both.

| Apr 29, 2019

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

Style wins out over content in this delectable low-key French thriller by director Denis Dercourt...

| Original Score: B- | Apr 26, 2009

This clever thriller certainly knows its Chabrol and its music.

| Original Score: B | Jul 3, 2008

With gentle plotting the intensity builds and builds until it all boils over.

| Mar 8, 2008

This must be what a French movie-of-the-week look like, deemed art here because of the subtitles.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 7, 2007

Sneaky and altogether pleasing, if undeniably derivative.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 20, 2007

If only the story could have been as involved and layered as some of the incredible music (or as good as a page-turner book), this would be a must-see.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 22, 2007

A tautly crafted but deeply misogynistic and anti-workingclass French psychological thriller.

Full Review | Jul 7, 2007

Deliciously chilling.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 23, 2007

In the movies, there's nothing quite as sinister as the antagonist who's willing to wait for her revenge.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 2, 2007

Dercourt washes the film in a chillingly remorseless suspense. . . . the story, as taut as a razor-sharp piano string, offers a few sly, subtle sexual knots before the final bloody note is struck.

Full Review | May 31, 2007

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 26, 2007

Director Denis Dercourt proves there are still unexpected twists to be found on the well-traveled road of the revenge mystery.

| Original Score: B | May 22, 2007

The serving temperature of revenge has seldom been colder, nor the time of preparation longer, than for this gourmet French plat froid from writer-director Denis Dercourt.

| May 11, 2007

this taut little film is a psychological thriller about revenge. If the Japanese horror adaptation hadn't already used the title THE GRUDGE, that might have served as a more appropriate title for this drama.

| Original Score: B+ | May 7, 2007

There is an undercurrent of tension throughout this riveting tale of revenge, made all the more effective by the subtlety and restraint used by French writer/director Denis Dercourt

Full Review | May 5, 2007

It's a small French delicacy, tart, acerbic and cynical, that focuses on three or four characters and yet manages to bring them and their dilemmas to vivid life.

| May 3, 2007

...the chilly atmosphere of carefully plotted revenge is the movie's main drawback as well as its chief appeal.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 27, 2007

Though the influence of Chabrol is apparent in Dercourt's film, it's more than a mere encore; it's an inventive composition in its own right.

| Original Score: B | Apr 22, 2007