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...does manage to create an interesting dynamic as it posits the need to balance psychology’s theoretics with actual results and action.

...a genial, preposterous psychological mystery caper: the tale of an American psychoanalyst in Paris, watchably played by Jodie Foster in elegant French...

It revolves around a death, but filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski's movie unspools like a date-night confection for the arthouse crowd.

...the ideas that the film prompts, coupled with Foster’s nuanced performance, make for a compelling enough character study.