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Not bad, but not great either.
searchanddestroy-15 December 2009
Warning: Spoilers
This could have been a Saturday night TV movie on France 3 - french channel. It takes place in the deep France, in the mountain, in the snow. A couple who lives in an isolated country cottage decide to move to the city, for professionnal reasons. But the things don't go as scheduled. The wife is disturbed by a hidden secret. The setting is of course an actor in this atmospheric movie. It contributes a lot in the suspense.

When the woman meets a teenager who walks on the road, in the middle of nowhere, in the snow, the story really begins.

This feature is inspired by a G J Arnaud novel: ENFANTASME. A typically Arnaud story who, as the other books of this writer, talks about isolation, loneliness and struggle of the lead - often women, strong women - against the hostile surroundings. City, big scale building or deep country side.

But it remains only a fair product. The screenplay could have been a little more faithful to the novel.

You can see it if you want. that's up to you.
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The innocent
dbdumonteil3 February 2011
G.J.ARNAUD was a rather famous fantasy and horror writer ,whose stories were often adapted as comic strips in the sixties/seventies .It seems he fell into oblivion since so it's nice to read his name in the credits of a movie:one should remark that his original title "Enfantasme" (pun made of "child" and "phantasm") is much better than the title of the movie (White sleep).

A woman has lost her only child and cannot get over it.One day ,a teenager comes to her isolated house near a beautiful lake ;he might be a runaway from a reform school ;but didn't those boys get drowned in the lake? So who might he be?Nobody sees him but her.Her husband wants to move but she is not in a hurry to leave this place ,on the contrary she is attracted by something that eludes her.

An offbeat work ,a bit déjà vu ,but if it urged the screenwriters to look on Arnaud's side,the director would not have been wasting time.
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