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La Chambre des Morts / Melody's Smile (2007)
Review by Kam-Hung Soh 2009
In the port city of Dunkirk, a young blind girl is kidnapped. When her
father tries to pay the ransom, he is accidentally killed and two
retrenched workers end up with the ransom money. Then another girl, a
diabetic, is abducted. Without insulin, she would die within a few days.
Among the police assigned to the case is a junior profiler, Lucie
Hennebelle (Mélanie Laurent). Her investigation leads her to an earlier
crime scene in the local zoo, where animals have been stolen and
mutilated by someone related to the kidnappings. As she constructs a
profile of the kidnappers, we see a possible link between the current
case and an earlier traumatic event in her life.
This French thriller is very similar in look to Jonathan Demme's 'The
Silence of the Lambs' (trivia: a copy of the book is visible briefly in
Lucie's apartment), with a lot of shots of dark corridors in run-down
mansions and some slightly nauseating scenes involving taxidermy and
decomposing bodies. For most of its running time, the film maintains a
realistic tone but as the bodies pile up near the end, the conclusion
becomes rather predictable.
French with English subtitles.
3 out of 5 stars.
http://vibogafi.blogspot.com/2009/09/review-les-chambre-des-morts-melodys.html
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Kam-Hung Soh
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