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Wonderfully shot, beautifully framed, terrifically directed. I loved the whole film, every scene was amazing, the colours, the sound, the mood. The romantic/erotic scenes were beautiful and, well, sexy, as they are supposed to be, very sexy, and with very good taste. Perfection! It's a good story too, a good police thriller with an erotic story in between, with some interesting characters and I thought the cast was very well chosen. I thought Meg Ryan was outstanding! There was some chemistry between her and Mark Ruffalo, so it works well. A pearl that didn't make it to the cinemas in Portugal (or at least not that I noticed).

European cinema at its best! Producer Paulo Branco has been producing some of the best films and best directors in Europe and this is one of the latest ones. Absolutely amazing, in depicting obsession, incest, dysfunction, love, selfishness, acceptation, pain... It's particularly brilliant how time and space is (not) presented.

The ending is terrific and the perfect conclusion to the story. Absolutely superb, a film I think only French could have the audacity to do... I hope European Cinema gets more protection so that we can keep watching these master pieces, otherwise we'll just have to stay dumb watching the main pop corn stream...