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Un Secret

Crit

It's never just one, is it? A more apt title might be Beaucoups des secrets, or peut-être Un Treillis des secrets, a latticework of inextricable lies and concealments--of life and death, love and betrayal, identity and disguise, family history, all arranged, moreover, in a triple chronological frame, the most recent level of which, oddly but necessarily, is thirty odd years ago.

A beautiful and affecting film, though the career direction the protagonist (Mathieu Amalric in the adult avatar) realizes from having the onionskin of secrets peeled away seems a bit pat and tangential.