Shady Matthias Schoenaerts falls for racing driver Adèle Exarchopoulos in a messy thriller from the director of BullheadRacer and the Jailbird is the rather plonking English title that’s been slapped on to a French- and Flemish-language movie that on its home turf is more pleasingly called Le Fidèle, or The Faithful One.
It’s a tragic crime drama starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Adèle Exarchopoulos – a handsomer couple can hardly be imagined – and directed by the Belgian film-maker Michaël R Roskam, who made the excellent thriller The Drop and gave Schoenaerts his first break with his debut Bullhead, in 2011.
So my anticipation was high for this one, but initial involvement and excitement gave way to bafflement and dissatisfaction.
Frankly, it is a bit of a mess.
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