A writer's research gets TOO real when her husband lands in a murder investigation.
Tempted by an important contract, Anna, a renowned writer, agrees to write a screenplay. But she lacks inspiration. She talks to her old university professor. No solution... Or maybe one... Take inspiration from reality. Desperate to express what seems to her to be clichés, Anna sees her life turned upside down after her husband's arrest, when a dancer is found murdered. A tornado, against a backdrop of police drama, her scenario takes shape. Her husband, innocent, is released, the murderer is still at large.
Acting
Sophie Duez carries the meta-narrative with genuine writerly panic.
Direction
Benattar blurs documentary grit with staged melodrama effectively.
Director
Gabriel Benattar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gabriel Benattar was primarily a TV documentarian; this remains his only theatrical feature.
Part of a wave of 1980s French films obsessed with video surveillance and meta-narratives, reflecting anxieties about authenticity in the Mitterrand era.
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