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A FILM BY Xavier Beauvois

A powerhouse of a film, an implacable, uncompromising French police drama.

- LOS ANGELES TIMES

Tough, satisfying an austere drama of the sort that rarely makes it to American screens.

- NEW YORK TIMES

A visceral punch... questions of redemption, grace, anguish and hope pervade most every frame.

- HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Engaging and real.

- NEWSDAY

Synopsis

"Nathalie Baye, who received this year's César for best actress, leads an outstanding ensemble as a Parisian detective and recovering alcoholic who teams with a bright-eyed rookie. Two years sober, Inspector Caroline Vaudieu is an elegant 50ish supercop returning to the helm of a criminal unit after the relative safety of a desk job. Newcomer Antoine inspires Caroline's maternal affection; he's about the same age as her son would be, had he not died in childhood. Antoine impulsively chooses a Paris assignment as a ticket out of Normandy (and eagerly) throws himself into the case at hand -- a series of murders of street people on the banks of the Seine." -THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER