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Five people are linked to the disappearance of a woman but are keeping guard of what they know in this...
Five people are linked to the disappearance of a woman but are keeping guard of what they know in this French crime-mystery from the BAFTA-nominated writer-director of With a Friend Like Harry...
A woman has disappeared. The day after a snowstorm, her car is found on a road leading to a plateau with with nothing but a few scattered farms. The gendarmes have nothing to go on, while five individuals well know they have something to do with the woman's disappearance. They all keep their secrets to themselves, but no one suspects that the whole story began far from these windswept wintry peaks: on another continent, in the burning sun, where poverty doesn't stop desire from taking the law into its own hands.
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93 %57 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
80 %49 reviewsAudience score rating
"A cinematic jigsaw puzzle of the highest order."
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FilmInk
FilmInk"Edgy, elusive and enthralling."
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Screen Daily
Screen Daily"A dark little trifle, whipped up from the sad, strange business of being human."
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Financial Times
Financial Times"The film's constituent parts interlock like the workings of an intricate and malign musical box, creating dashes of melodrama, erotic obsession and even soap opera, and all superbly performed."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"The film can be a bit low on suspense in places but remains intriguing enough to keep you guessing till the last twist."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"A film that doesn't ask you to keep up so much as it encourages you to sink into the mystery and go along for the ride."
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Variety
Variety"An ingenious feat of narrative construction which leads us down the garden path then backtracks up it bit by bit."
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Daily Telegraph
Daily TelegraphOnly the Animals | Details
- Rating
- M, Mature themes, violence, sex, nudity and coarse language
- Runtime
- 116
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- France
