While waiting to see if the French army deems him fit to return to active duty in Afghanistan, PTSD-riddled soldier Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts) accepts a routine side gig guarding the wife (Diane Kruger) and son of a shady Lebanese businessman. With more psychotropic drugs in his system than you can find on a Walgreen’s pharmacy shelf, Vincent can barely focus on getting through the day. Still, the second he’s on the clock, nothing gets past his gaze. Nothing, that is, until a tight first half gives way to easy romance capped by a wobbly climax. (Sorta’ like what happened in Drive.) Why the bad guys are hired to harass Kruger is never made clear. Unless you buy into the cockeyed ending, Vincent’s sudden rise as head of the household also goes unjustified. Worth seeing for Schoenaerts’s dead-eyed (and dead-on) performance and director Alice Winocour and audio designer Nicolas Becker’s sound representation of Vincent’s trauma. (2015) — Scott Marks
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