![]() This unique approach confers the film a melancholic tone that Thomas cleverly balances with humorous touches.ĭarrieux, whose career has resumed after her 2002 comeback in Francois Ozon’s “8 Women,” is as imperial as ever as the old aunt who favors one of his nephew’s wives and despises the other. The crime in “Zero”will be committed at the end, “zero” being the exact moment of the crime toward which all the characters are converging. Tension arises until the fatal moment of a terrible calculated murder.Īlthough Thomas and his co-writers moved the action from 1944 England to contemporary Brittany, France, the key idea to the story remains the same, as expressed by an old judge in the opening sequence: Crime stories are usually disappointing because they explain a murder that takes place at the beginning of the story (or even in some cases beforehand). The young Guillaume Neuville (Poupaud) has the strange idea to invite both his wife, the hot-blooded Caroline (Smet), and his ex-wife, the delicate and shy Aude (Mastroianni), to spend a summer in the seaside house of his aunt Camilla (Darrieux). ![]()
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