Have you ever stood by helplessly while a situation spun
wildly out of control, only to wonder later how it happened? That is exactly
the predicament in which a French businessman, played by Laurent Lucas, who
portrays a man engaged in computing probabilities, finds himself. His own life
expectancy is 82 years old. He takes this as a certainty.
Alexis Bledel, who plays Kate Logan , a rookie police
officer in a small American town, mistakes Lucas as a fugitive and pulls her
pistol on him as he sits in his car outside a convenience store where both have
gone for coffee. When she realizes her mistake she is apologetic, but as the
day goes on she begins to worry that should the man complain, she just may lose
her job.
And thus initiates a chain of events in which she returns to
apologize again, which begins an encounter with the Frenchman, each step taking
him further and further from the world he took for granted. At the same time
Officer Logan becomes more and more entrapped in a situation of her own making,
which must now be undone. But who will pay the cost to save her career?
Tersely filmed and directed, this film explores the seemingly
harmless lines we sometimes cross, and the consequences which those actions
ultimately have on those around us; and ourselves. Ecellent script and
performances make this film one not to be missed.
By Robert William
March 21, 2014
