The Swindle

Posted 12 February 2007 in Screening log

Rating

[Rien ne va plus]


1997 - France

Director
Claude Chabrol

Starring
Isabelle Huppert, Michel Serrault, François Cluzet

Light comedy with random lapses into suspense-thriller territory — Huppert & Serrault are lovable as small-time con artists attempting a swindle “out of their league;” I guess they are meant to be a father/daughter team but, er… this is (rather delightfully) ambiguous. Frivolous enjoyable thing.
 

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