Mathieu Simonet

In this intoxicating period piece, a young watchmaker trying to invent a waterproof version falls madly in love with a mysterious, beautiful woman.

A peaceful village in the French Alps becomes the backdrop for brutal murder, profound paranoia and an unravelling dark past. From Walter Presents, in French with English subtitles.

Lili, an ill young woman, is faced one morning with the sudden loss of her hair. The imagination of her friend Laura is going to change the course of a day, which had badly begun.

During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.

When asked by Chabrol if she wanted to play a pervert, Huppert, true to form, enthusiastically said “Yes!” So came about this benignly-titled character study that leaves an acidic aftertaste. Underneath the smooth veneer of chic interiors and bourgeois civility, dark impulses quietly congeal.