Director, co-writer, and star Mathieu Amalric (Venus in Fur) serves up a short, slight, somewhat Frenchie crime story. Meaning: the runtime is 76 minutes, the interest comes mainly from the chopped-up-and-scrambled timeline, and there's a little ooh-la-la arthouse nudity at the outset to catch your interest. Everyone involved in this affair-gone-sour — overwhelmed, uncertain husband; devoted, unstable mistress; wounded, unwanted wife — is dull enough to be thoroughly believable, but that doesn't make them any less dull. If anything, it's a backhanded testimony to the plodding effectiveness of detail-minded detective work and the slow grinding of the bureaucratic justice machine. (There's a fine shot of the lovers' case files: one laid atop the other, like the lovers themselves.) Unless it's precisely the opposite. Ambiguity is something of the raison d'etre here. (2014) — Matthew Lickona
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