For several years now I've had a problem with French movies. Increasingly if I want to see some Real Actors I have to take male eye candy on the order of Gaspar Ulliel, Vincent Cassell, Benoit Magimal and Roman Duris. So it is here; in order to appreciate Marina Fois in yet another fine performance I have to stomach Duris in the lead and although Catherine Deneuve gets featured billing she has little more than a cameo.Apparently it is based on a novel by one Douglas Kennedy, of whom I've never heard but he has clearly not only heard of but read Patricia Highsmith because this tale of a man who commits murder in the heat of the moment and not only gets away with it but goes on to have a successful lie under an assumed identity is pure Highh smith. Worth seeing for Fois but that's about it.
Review of The Big Picture
