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Guillaume Canet, Marie Gillain, Vanessa Paradis

Guillaume Canet stars in Guillaume Nicloux's suspenseful post-noir thriller La Clef (The Key) as Eric Vincent, a thirtysomething whose wife, Audrey (Marie Gillain) longs for a baby. A troubled situati... read more read more...on involving Eric's own dad, however (including years of estrangement) makes him extremely reluctant to father a child himself. One day, a call arrives, and a mysterious stranger on the other end both announces the death of Eric's father and invites Eric to reclaim the gentleman's ashes. This sets into motion a chain of events that will entangle the young man in a series of endless complications - complications involving drug dealers, professional thieves, long-buried family skeletons and a host of other ills. As the story unfolds, Nicloux criss-crosses two narratives: a crime-themed account set in the present, and a chain-of-events set in the past that details how Eric's life became enmeshed in a web of deadening violence. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 56 min.

Directed by: Guillaume Nicloux

Release Date: December 19, 2007

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Joseph Proimakis
June 29, 2008
Joseph Proimakis, Movies for the Masses

atmosfairiko oso den paei, kai mperdeytiko oso den antehei, dyskoleyetai na brei to rythmo, ki asthmainei na ton kratisei, htizontas gia dyo para ligo ores tin poreia toy pros mia koyfia koryfosi, poy... Full Review

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