A random bullet. Three shattered lives. One story told backward, sideways, and through the cracks.
Nat drives on the interstate with his two young daughters in the back seats, when a car drives by and an unknown guy shoots one of his daughters dead for no reason. Nat's life is shattered. He becomes obsessed with finding the killers, assaults two men, kills one, goes to jail, is left by his wife, grows old estranged from his other daughter. We see the action first through Nat's eyes, then via Brautigan, the cop in charge of the investigation, and finally from the perspective of the remaining daughter Margo. The deconstructed narrative echoes the chaos within Nat and emphasizes the fact that the characters are out of tune with one another, which is the meaning of the original title.
Direction
Cornuau's fractured structure mirrors a broken mind.
Acting
Gamblin's descent from dad to monster, beat by beat.
Writing
Three perspectives, zero reconciliation between them.
Director
Jérôme Cornuau
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The original French title 'Dissonances' refers to musical discord—Cornuau treats the three timelines as clashing instruments that never resolve.
Bérénice Bejo filmed this just before her breakout in 'The Artist'; her Margo is almost unrecognizably raw.
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