Jérôme Le Gris's first film as writer-director is a homage to Hitchcock centring on a French special forces officer sent to kill Lucrèce, a beautiful French assassin, whose last mission is to murder a British baritone performing Handel's Messiah at a Swiss chateau. Her employer is a British oil company that aims to build a pipeline on his land in the Highlands. A precocious French schoolboy's idea of sophistication, the film is as deep and as brittle as a coating of glossy nail varnish.
Requiem for a Killer – review
Philip French
Jérôme Le Gris's thriller pays tribute to Hitchcock but has little of the Master's sophistication, writes Philip French
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