An average movie

Even though this movie didn't get much love when it was released, since I have always been a huge fan of Roman Polanski's work, I was still really eager to check it out. Unfortunately, even though it was a decent watch, I still turned out to be one of the weaker efforts from the Polish master, I'm afraid. Polanski has very often made such minimalist pictures in the past and this movie was basically focusing on only 2 characters which wasn't a bad idea but, even though the first 20 minutes were intriguing, very soon, I started to loose interest in the whole thing. Eventually,  I won't blame Emmanuelle Seigner and Eva Green would did what they could but the material was just rather weak. The biggest issue was that it didn't make much sense that Delphine wouldn't drop Elle after she displayed such an annoying invasive stalking behavior. It was just so obvious and happened way too soon after they barely met each other. Especially in the case of such a famous writer, to late someone invade her life like this so easily was just rather unbelievable. On top of that, Elle was such a fake character, in every possible way, and it made her even more annoying. I have to admit that I didn't see the twist ending coming but it felt rather lazy (on top of that, how did she get to the country house by car on her own with a broken leg?). Anyway, in spite of its flaws, I still think it is worth a look, if only to see Eva Green for once showing up in a French movie.

6/10