MC
Marco Castellini
•In an impassable mountainous area stands one of the oldest French universities, which boasts a great tradition for having counted among its students some of the country's greatest researchers. Students and professors live in symbiosis in a sort of self-sufficient community, almost separate from the outside world. The tranquility of the place is however disturbed by some heinous murders whose victims are linked, in various ways, to the study center. A special agent, later helped by a lieutenant of the Gendarmerie, begin to investigate, uncovering the terrible secret that the university community hides. Adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Jean Christophe Grangé, French director Mathieu Kassovitz directs a decent thriller, which offers the best of itself in the first part, managing to evoke dark and mysterious atmospheres and foreshadowing a suspenseful and horrific ending; unfortunately, it is not so: the final part of the film indeed reserves an explanation far too rational and "police-like", which fails to be convincing. In the cast, Jean Reno ("Léon") and Vincent Cassel.
