A retired cop, a hidden woman, and a past that refuses to stay buried.
Marc Delvaux, a famous retired police commissioner, lives alone in a large building in the Lyon countryside on the banks of the Saône. When a lawyer friend asks him to house Emma for a while, a young woman who has to testify, he accepts without suspecting that he has just signed his return to the field.
Acting
Lanoux's weary gravitas anchors every scene he's in.
Cinematography
Saône river setting becomes a character—misty, isolating, gorgeous.
Director
Michel Favart
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Victor Lanoux was 75 during filming; this was among his final roles before his 2017 death.
Adapts the 'roman policier' tradition where landscape psychology matters more than puzzle-box plotting.
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