Claude Chabrol leaves one of his best late; 2003
The camera is pretty free here, and in that sense this is one of Chabrol's colder features. The camera remains reticent in this, moving on its own accord.
The reason this is good is because the script is fine, the plot is genuinely interesting and builds up the tension, without going over the top. The theme of the past's recurrence in the present is genuinely interesting, and the tone achieved near the end, of a sort of strange happiness and acceptance in the horror (there is only the present) has been well, and rarely for Chabrol, delicately, built up. Certainly the best late Chabrol we have seen, one of the top few overall.
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