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Before The Winter Chill
Lucie presumes that her husband Paul - an older neurosurgeon - has an affair. Indeed, Paul behaves strange lately, but the truth behind it is dark and complicated.
31 July 1950, Paris, France
13 September 1952, Alger, Algeria
4 October 1983, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
24 May 1960, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
6 March 1984, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France
May 09, 2014
Reuniting with filmmaker Philippe Claudel (I've Loved You So Long), Kristin Scott Thomas delivers yet another brittle, understated performance as a woman who isn't always likeable but is hugely sympathetic.May 09, 2014
A final ludicrous reveal drags us from high-end art cinema to the world of Midsomer Murders. Classy, for all that.May 08, 2014
The all-important chill is tepid.May 09, 2014
Auteuil, looking jowly and weatherbeaten, brings bafflement and pathos to his role as the man suddenly consumed by self-loathing.April 07, 2015
You need to be patient with Before The Winter Chill. It is a gloomy, slow-burning film that adds insight and intrigue the way an artist brings texture and colour to a painting.May 11, 2014
With its chilly visual sheen and sharp bourgeois satire, this handsomely mounted and consistently well-played yarn offers disposable pleasures and rewarding intrigue.April 07, 2015
An affecting midlife mood piece.May 30, 2015
An intriguing thriller based on melancholy, mystery, vagueness, ambiguity and perfectionism. [full review in Spanish]May 09, 2014
Another middle-class, midlife crisis unfolds here in the way French cinema does so well.April 07, 2015
It's only towards the end that you discover that Before the Winter Chill could have been a gripping thriller. Instead it's a mildly haunting disquisition on the peril of the midlife crisis.May 16, 2014
All the performances are very good, I find Scott Thomas really watchable, but while everyone being a bit resigned might be reality for many, it isn't engaging.April 07, 2015
Elegantly cool rather than downright chilly, novelist-turned-filmmaker Philippe Claudel's third feature has a distinctly literary feel, as it plants its dramatic seeds very methodically before accelerating to a startling denouement.