Slow. Lots of scenes without any dialogue at all.
A British writer takes a break from her London digs
and settles in at her editor's house in France. She
expects to spend time alone writing her next new and
different novel but is interrupted by a visitor.
This film reminds me of "The Others," where you
have to endure a great deal of nothing much of
interest happening on the screen in order to enjoy
the zinger at the end. If you liked "The Others" (I
didn't), then you might like this film as well.
There's also quite a sexual component to this
picture, but I didn't understand how it fit in.
Perhaps I was guilty of losing interest and missing
the clues I should have seen. Nevertheless, not only
was I bored, I ultimately didn't 'get' this
picture.
Pretty good acting mostly, including Ludivine
Sagnier who plays Tink in this year's "Peter Pan." Oddly, I
wasn't impressed terribly with her performance there,
but "Peter Pan" is an excellent film. Although, that
family adventure is admittedly and quite drastically
different from this eerily somewhat-sexual
thriller.
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