Duelles

Alice (Veerle Baetens) and Céline (Anne Coesens) are neighbors, best friends and their families spend all their time together. However, when a terrible tragedy hits their lives, their relationship changes significantly and they both start to question everything that kept them together.

Watching alternately the American version of 2024 and the Franco-Belgian version of 2018, a very similar remake, with some small changes, but a powerful and controversial drama, which tries to confuse us until its final act of destruction... I notice a slight preference for the original in its poetic and tearful final scene, and in small contexts that seem more plausible, while the second one tries to justify the facts (unnecessarily)... Excellent adapted production...

Good movie and the final really I was not expecting. Enjoyed it.

Not a boring movie, will keep you hooked, and the ending was pretty cool.. won't disappoint like most other movies do nowadays

He could/would be proud of this one.

Ticks so many boxes: Production design 9 Acting performances 9 Plot twist 9 Pace 7 Score 7 Casting 10 What's not to like. Now I've got to get to the required characters of 600 for this review to be valid, but that's an easy peasy lemon squeezy job. This movie sucked me in from minute one and never let go. Sometimes you would think: is the protagonist going nad, or is she the only one thinking straight? All this in a time period where men could still decide about theit wives' wellbeing by just stating they're crazy. This is a director I will follow and hope stands up to (t)his very promising standard.

If Alfred Hitchcock was alive and well and making movies in France, this would be the sort of thing he'd be doing. And my hat is off to Olivier Masset-Depasse for adding his own sinister touch to it. Under his direction, all of the actors are outstanding--which is important because in the wrong hands the story could have turned out like a Lifetime movie. But I was truly on the edge of my seat for much of this.