Canet has hit the right note here, setting up what looks like might be a fun thriller to watch and giving us instead a mystery gem. How it is that it slipped under the radar so easily is beyond me, but it was made in 2006, a particularly good year for movies so, perhaps that is to blame.

This is a crime thriller of the sort that has enough twists to keep you on the edge of your seat the entire time, opening up with a couple, Alex and Margot, going to the lake in their property, talking and swimming for a while, before an argument sparks off and Margot takes off to check on the dog. Margot is then suddenly and unexpectedly attacked and killed.

A few years later, the matter seems to be a part of the distant past, even if Alex and Margot’s mother seem to have a strange annual ritual where they continue to get together on the anniversary of Margot’s death. However, when Alex suddenly receives an e-mail pointing to an inside matter that only he and Margot knew about and with enough evidence to prove that his former wife might still be alive, Alex’s world turns upside down. He is very quickly forced to try to uncover the mystery before the police, who are suddenly suspicious of him again as a murderer when two more bodies are found dead in the property.

Exciting to watch, this film truly can be described as a nail-biter with a rather satisfactory ending that puts everything together cleverly. Studded with mystery, intrigue and some action this is a film that you must watch!

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Comments: Brief nudity, violence and language. French with English subtitles.