Divorced private detective Francois Maneri is assigned by his agency to investigate the disappearance of Rachel, a young student who has been missing for six months. After interviewing Rachel's family, friends and classmates, Francois is attacked and injured by an anonymous assailant and becomes reluctant to continue his search. But when Rachel's body is found, Francois is drawn deeper into the investigation as he discovers the dead girl's secret life.
Acting
Cotillard's magnetic ambiguity—victim, accomplice, or mirror?
Direction
Nicloux's grubby digital aesthetic ages better than it should.
Writing
The detective as sad sack, not hero—rarely done this honestly.
Director
Guillaume Nicloux
Thierry Lhermitte
François Manéri
Marion Cotillard
Clarisse Entoven
Samuel Le Bihan
Vincent Walt
Aurore Clément
Madame Siprien
Frédéric Diefenthal
Femme bar de nuit
Jeanne Balibar
Sylvie, l'ex de Manéri
Robert Hirsch
Vieil homme
Garance Clavel
Sandrine Pujol
Clovis Cornillac
Freddy
Lydia Andréï
Marion
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Homme Apolus
Consuelo De Haviland
Claudine Després
Niels Arestrup
Le père de Rachel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nicloux shot this on early digital video to capture Paris's grimy corners—look for the pixelated night scenes that critics hated then and feel accidentally prescient now.
Released between the Baise-Moi controversy and the New French Extremity wave, this quieter genre exercise got buried—Cotillard's Oscar win for La Vie en Rose finally earned it rediscovery.
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