Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise... they are not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.
From the description, you might think this was a French version of "The Strangers" or something like that. You would be sorely mistaken. The film takes the idea of "less is more" a little too far. The bulk of it has two people reacting to noises in the night. There is basically no real threat to them, at least not so far as I could see.
The film finally picks up in the third act, and treats us to some amazing architecture. If there had been a way to get the story to that point sooner, and perhaps for longer, I think it would have held my interest better.
Most disappointing, the film billed itself as based on true events. How many hundreds -- or thousands -- of films use this gimmick? Please stop. We all know that your story is either not based on true events at all, or is so loosely based on them that it is not even worth saying so. (I appreciate the words "inspired by" even less -- every story ever written is "inspired" by something in real life!)
From the description, you might think this was a French version of "The Strangers" or something like that. You would be sorely mistaken. The film takes the idea of "less is more" a little too far. The bulk of it has two people reacting to noises in the night. There is basically no real threat to them, at least not so far as I could see.
The film finally picks up in the third act, and treats us to some amazing architecture. If there had been a way to get the story to that point sooner, and perhaps for longer, I think it would have held my interest better.
Most disappointing, the film billed itself as based on true events. How many hundreds -- or thousands -- of films use this gimmick? Please stop. We all know that your story is either not based on true events at all, or is so loosely based on them that it is not even worth saying so. (I appreciate the words "inspired by" even less -- every story ever written is "inspired" by something in real life!)