When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d'Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.
Direction
Cattet & Forzani weaponize split-screen like it's 1974
Cinematography
Every frame demands to be licked—pure saturated noir
Editing
Temporal whiplash between young/old Diman
Director
Hélène Cattet
Fabio Testi
John Diman (old)
Yannick Renier
John Diman (young)
Koen De Bouw
Markus Strand
Maria de Medeiros
Laura
Thi-Mai Nguyen
Serpentik
Céline Camara
Amanda
Kézia Quental
Diva
Sylvia Camarda
Serpentik
Sophie Mousel
Jane
Hervé Sogne
Waiter
Barbara Hellemans
Serpentik
Sébastien Landry
Concierge
Manon Beuchot
Nilton Martins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cattet and Forzani continue their obsessive restoration of Italian giallo aesthetics—this time grafting it onto Resnais-style memory puzzles.
Fabio Testi, 1970s poliziottescho icon, plays his own legacy: the casting meta-commentary is almost cruel.
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