Advantages: Great thriller with twists and turns Disadvantages: Slightly dull ending
Elsa Valentin is struggling with life. Her husband has left her and wants to take their son with him, and she is obviously recovering from some kind of breakdown, although the trigger is not made clear. Then she becomes obsessed with a little girl, the sister of an acquaintance of her son. Much following and enquiring later, she finds out that the little girl is called Lola, and she deliberately gets to know the girl's mother, Claire Vigneaux. Claire ... ...is a 'nice woman', but eventually, she begins to suspect that all is not right with Elsa. What exactly is Elsa up to? Is her interest in Lola innocent, or is there a more sinister reason? And can Claire keep her daughter safe from this apparent mad woman?
It is a sad state of affairs that I had never heard of this film until I saw it recently in an independent cinema. The only reason for this appears to be that it is a French language film, and ...
sunmeilan 10.06.2009
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