It starts off simple enough: A small family lives a quiet life in a charming town near the French Alps. But when the husband is found dead, a merciless and probing sense of dread unfurls as the wife becomes the prime suspect. A stinging examination of how we can never bury the past of a relationship, even in its most final moments. (dir. Justine Triet, France, 2023, 150m)
“It’s a precise study of how strife and conflict metastasize if left unresolved. And by grounding these fine-tuned dramatics in the guise of a genre picture, it works to profound effect.” The A.V. Club
