This is a neatly played swindle caper starting off slowly with an elegant Isabelle Huppert and Michel Serrault as the leads. They are smalltime scam artists drugging and robbing conventioneers of just enough money for them not to notice they've been robbed! Huppert and Serrault have an interesting though blurred relationship: not father and daughter but not lovers either. Suddenly Huppert takes a couple of weeks off and lets Serrault in on a plan for a caper, a big one. Huppert's boyfriend is a money launderer for the mob trying to flee with 5 million francs. Serrault is very smooth and narrowly avoids getting executed by her boyfriend's employers who like to kill to the strains of Puccini. It is all very neatly put together as a story, with even pacing and the relationship between Huppert and Serrault is rich and well played.

Reviewed by Eric Michel, FilmCities