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...some love-making. At a certain point she slips off the dock for one last dip. After a moment, screams are heard - then an ominous silence. Later, her body - or should we say "a" body - is recovered and identified by her father, who happens to be a policeman. Alex (Francois Cluzet), the husband, is suspected of the crime, but it is pinned on some serial killers who have been operating in the neighborhood. Now, eight years later, Alex, a doctor, receives an email that seems to show that his wife may still be alive...
...find her, rescue himself from his pervasive melancholy and restore order and happiness to his life? Not, it would seem, if the police have anything to say about it. Coincidentally, they begin to take a renewed interest in what is the coldest case in their files. Very soon Alex is running for his life - quite spectacularly so, under the direction of film director Guillaume Canet...
...Running and (for that matter) crime solving are not Alex's natural mode. He's a thoughtful, patient man who has, at best, been living an emotional half-life for almost a decade. He has a female friend (Kristin Scott Thomas), though he is guilty and tentative about pursuing that relationship. He maintains an edgy relationship with his wife's parents and he has connections, through his sister, to a very rich man who has a stable of show jumpers, and, as it develops, a dark secret to hide...
...though the film's action is driven by this complex (and impossible to briefly describe) narrative. The film, a French adaptation of a novel by the American thriller writer Harlan Coben, relies for its seductive power on its characters and their relationships. For example, it's crucial to Alex's fate that, as a doctor, he has paid sympathetic attention to a hemophiliac little boy who is treated routinely by the rest of his hospital's staff. The boy's father is a criminal, whose assistance to Alex when he goes on the run proves vital to his survival...
Harvard came out fighting in the first chukker. Rising senior Nick Snow dominated the game early, scoring two of the Crimson’s first three goals and setting up teammate and recent graduate Alex Levin for the other to give Harvard a 3-0 lead to start the second chukker...