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Marion Cotillard stars in "Une Femme Piegee" - American titled "Woman in Danger" - which I saw on Amazon prime as an actual movie. I was surprised to learn it's an episode of a TV series.

The petite, beautiful Cotillard is Florence, a woman with marital problems who has a one night stand with one Victor Cartier. He persists in seeing her again, so she goes to his hotel bungalow. When time passes and he hasn't appeared, she walks into the bathroom and sees blood everywhere and a man bent over, head under water in the tub. She races out. Unfortunately one of her earrings is found at the scene, plus the gardener saw her race out in her car -- she's arrested. Her attorney husband gets her out on a technicality. He's angry, to say the least.

When the murder makes the news, Florence realizes the man she was with and who was allegedly killed is not Victor Cartier. She wants to find the man whom she believes set her up to take a murder rap.

This was easy to figure out, but it holds one's interest as Florence runs from the law and her husband, desperately trying to locate the man she was with. I mentioned above that Cotillard is petite - this show gave her quite a workout, running like mad, climbing hills, all in the hot sun.

I often read reviews of films I've seen that complain about the hand-held cameras. Never bothered me before now. Really, really drove me crazy and nearly made me sick. Not only that, but sometimes the camera was so close, you didn't know what you were looking at. In fact, when Florence has her one night stand, I thought it was two women at first.

Other than that it's well done and Cotillard is wonderful.

The word "piégée" in the film's title film's title gets at the heart of the story of a woman who feels trapped. Marion Cotillard is excellent as the feisty wife of a sleazy attorney, who refuses to play the role of victim.

Cotillard's character Florence is set up for the murder of one of her husband's clients. She receives mixed legal counsel from her husband and is denied her rights by the police.

Florence is constantly on the run, as she tracks down clues about the circumstances of the murder of a man she never met. While she feels guilt about her brief fling, the man she slept was clearly entrapping her in a more sinister conspiracy.

Many of the characters are shady, including the homicide detective who will stop at nothing to apprehend Florence. The film belongs to Cotillard, who skillfully eludes the authorities and solves the mystery.

While this was a French television program, the finished product has the look of a featured film.