D'après une histoire vraie

Roman Polanski's one of the best movies. Thrilling 1.5 hrs approx. Eva Green was stunning. Seigner showed her aged beauty and experimented a new role for her. Thus duo was out of the box and in a word- Fabulous!!

Directing: 7 /Acting: 7 /Story: 7 /Production values: 7 /Suspence - Thriller level: 7 /Action: 0 /Mystery - unknown: 7 /Romance level: 3 /Comedy elements: 0

Eva Green made 'D'après une histoire vraie' captivating. Her performance is beyond art. She has insanely captivating energy as Elle. Eva brings tension, alertness, and suspense on screen. She'll own you if you watch this. Other than that, the movie is solid average. It has that unique emotion that follows you from the beginning to the end. Actors played great roles, considering the part mentioned above, because the plot has gaps.

Everything in movie was predictable, except one moment - which happened to be - unfinished in dead end street.

- Scenario is lacking the deeper dialogs - because everything seems rushed - and shallow.

- Then suddenly - the story began to look like the "Misery" - with locked hardly movable Delphine, with her injured leg - completely depend - of her younger "new friend" - in village house - with no people around - The "Misery" crawl out completely when Delphine ended up in bed, poisoned, and helpless, refused to surrender to her bully.

- So the movie was not so original, and Misery was far better in creating story tense.

- Actually the Misery part, should be the best one, but it came on 3/4 of the movie, probably seeing by Polanski as "peak" in story telling but it was to fast out - and leaved flat, leading imediately to end of the movie.

- It's kind of shame - because the story could be less predictable, and be better filmed and screenplayed.

Long ago,Roman Polanski had warned us: beware of the neighbors, beware of those would be friends who ,little by little, work their way in to your intimate world : that was "Rosemary 's baby" and "le locataire " (the tenant ") ;paranoia had also been the subject of "repulsion" .

"D'après une histoire vraie" is psychological drama of the first order : Emmanuelle Seignier is as good as ever but the stand out is her co-star Eva Green : if looks could kill,her piercing green eyes certainly would ; always friendly ,but with something hard ,something threatening ;her motives remain obscure: a doppelganger , a lesbian attraction, something related to family past, a complete unknown in search of fame through an intermediary?

Green goes as far as to look like her victim, adopting her hairdo ( recalling sometimes Claude Chabrol's "les biches " ) .And the ending remains ambiguous ,you can interpret it according to your own sensitivity .

A weakness in the screenplay : the meeting with the librarian :the probability was close to zero! This is minor quibble though.