Virginie Efira (‘Benedetta’) plays a French woman ensnared by a double life in this tense psychological drama from director Antoine Barraud, which premiered in the Mostra's Venice Days sidebar.
It takes the film some time to reveal how its heroine, Judith found herselfliving a double life filled with lies and deceit, but also with lots of love and affection.
Viewers looking for answers may be frustrated by a scenario that seems to be forever spinning out of control, and yet part of the attraction ofis in seeing how far Barraud is willing take things until providing a reasonable explanation. It’s a tricky balancing act that’s one-third Hitchcockian intrigue and one-third Chabrolian study of broken bourgeois homes, with the final third bordering on kitsch.
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