Dominik Moll has given us some great thrillers in the past: Harry, un ami..., Lemming, La nuit du 12. This one is harder to unravel, as it deals with multiple points of view. You are not even sure there has been a murder until near the end. Who could have killed the rich bisexual woman? There are a number of suspects, and the police, in the person of Bastien Bouillon (who played the cop in La nuit du 12) really have no leads. There is some fine acting from the leads: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi as the rich woman who wonders how she can disentangle herself from a messy infatuation with a woman young enough to be her daughter; Nadia Tereszkiewicz as the young woman dangerously obsessed with her indifferent lover; Denis Menochet as the farmer whose chat room usage turns out to be disastrous for him and the people around him. There are some weaknesses in the third act which prevent me from giving this a 10.
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