Cast : Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Samuel THEIS
thriller / France / 151’ / Color / status : completed / French, English, German / General Audience / long feature-film / All Rights / International collections
For the past year, Sandra, a German writer, her French husband Samuel, and their eleven-year-old son Daniel have lived a secluded life in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead in the snow below their chalet, the police question whether he committed suicide or was killed. Samuel’s death is treated as suspicious, presumed murder, and Sandra becomes the main suspect. Little by little the trial becomes not just an investigation of the circumstances of Samuel’s death, but an unsettling psychological journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel’s conflicted relationship.
In this Hitchcockian procedural thriller, Justine Triet (Sibyl, Cannes 2019 Competition, In Bed With Victoria) creates a complex and fascinating heroine, questioning common beliefs about relationships and truth.
Press
«A gripping and gratifyingly rich drama»
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
«Hüller’s performance, a haunting and emotional tour de force that stays long in the mind and puts her right up there in the top tier of European talent.»
DEADLINE
«Triet’s piercing film holds the ambient tensions and illogical loose ends of domestic life against the harsh and rational light of a legal system that searches for order in chaos. Hüller dazzles.»
INDIEWIRE
«Triet’s breathtakingly intelligent and subtly perverse masterpiece takes the long way through the cold and the snow to address, in nuanced but never ambiguous terms, the ineffable and irreducible mystery at the heart of deep relationships — between two partners, between parents and their children, between words and the world.»
THE PLAYLIST
«An intellectual thriller of rare calibre, assembled so precisely and deepening so richly it continually takes your breath away. This script is a diamond. »
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