Trespassing on Chabrol territory with his assault on bourgeois morality, Michel Deville deftly establishes the simmering story involving a guitar teacher (Christophe Malavoy), his teenage pupil (Anais Jeanneret) and her parents (Nicole Garcia and Michel Piccoli).
Add a voyeuristic neighbour (Anemone) and a genial hit man (Richard Bohringer), and you have a thriller that's only spoiled by its conventional ending. The love scenes ooze sensuality, as you might expect from a French thriller, but this isn't really an erotic thriller per se. With many virtually silent scenes and a myriad of significant glances and glares, it's what lies between the lines, rather than between the sheets, that matters here.