In Montreal, the unemployed fashion designer Sophie Malaterre is shown a website, switch.com, where it is possible to switch houses with a stranger for vacation. Sophie seeks an apartment in Paris nearby the Eiffel Tower that belongs to Bénédicte Serteaux and they change apartments. Sophie arrives in Paris on Saturday morning. The next morning, policemen break in the apartment and arrest Sophie while she is having a bath. Detective Damien Forgeat interrogates Sophie believing that she is Bénédicte and she learns that a beheaded body was found in her room and all evidence of her life has been deleted.
Acting
Éric Cantona's detective is weirdly magnetic, like he wandered from better noir
Production
Paris looks gorgeous while being absolutely hostile
Director
Frédéric Schoendoerffer
Éric Cantona
Damien Forgeat
Karine Vanasse
Sophie Malaterre
Mehdi Nebbou
Stéphane Defer
Aurélien Recoing
Delors
Karina Testa
Bénédicte Serteaux
Niseema Theillaud
Alice Serteaux
Bruno Todeschini
Verdier
Maxim Roy
Claire Marras
Sophie Faucher
Marianne Malaterre
Karim Saleh
Kourosh
Cyril Lecomte
Koskas
Pierre Leblanc
Canadian Inspector
Stéphane Demers
Inspector Lachaux
Lika Minamoto
Japanese Girl
Françoise Michaud
Agathe Huygens
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Éric Cantona was Manchester United's volcanic king before becoming France's unlikely thriller staple.
The 'switch.com' premise felt futuristic in 2011; now it reads like a true crime podcast waiting to happen.
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