When bestselling novelist Betty Fisher loses her young son in a tragic accident, her unstable mother resorts to unusual actions to alleviate Betty's grief, actions which set off a chain reaction among a promiscuous waitress and her criminal associates.
Acting
Sandrine Kiberlain's restrained devastation vs. Nicole Garcia's unhinged maternal desperation.
Direction
Claude Miller weaves three stories with Hitchcockian precision and Gallic gloom.
Writing
Ruth Rendell adaptation balances pulp thrills with genuine emotional wreckage.
Director
Claude Miller
Sandrine Kiberlain
Betty Fisher
Nicole Garcia
Margot Fisher
Mathilde Seigner
Carole Novacki
Luck Mervil
François Diembele
Stéphane Freiss
Édouard
Yves Jacques
René le Canadien
Roschdy Zem
Dr. Jérôme Castang
Yves Verhoeven
Martinaud
Annie Mercier
Jacqueline
Michaël Abiteboul
Milo
Pascal Bonitzer
Mr. Barsky
Béatrice Agenin
Alex's Mistress
Consuelo De Haviland
Madame Barsky
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