Genre films are on the rise, and Fabrice Du Welz (Message from the King), experienced in detective stories and thrillers, is faithful to them with Inexorable, in theaters Wednesday, April 6. Conversely, Benoît Poelvoorde is a writer, and Mélanie Doutey his wife, a rich and devoted heiress; a family infiltrated by an increasingly threatening babysitter. Well-crafted, intriguing and mysterious, Inexorable works like a well-oiled little clock.
Jeanne inherits from her father, a wealthy publisher, the family home where she moves with her husband Marcel, a writer, and their little girl. They call on a young babysitter, to whom they grant more and more space in the management of the house. Taking liberties with the couple, she interferes in their intimacy, installs the disorder, until distilling a disturbing suspicion.
On a classic canvas, the scenario stands out from the clichés by the thickness of the characters and their unexpected interpreters: Benoît Poelvoorde as a freshly discovered writer with a first novel, and Mélanie Doutey, as a docile and admiring wife. At 26, Alba Gaïa Bellug – Jeanne, the babysitter – has a great career behind her (The Office of LegendsResnais, Claude Miller) and imposes itself as a poisonous intriguer.
Everything lies in this progression which makes the salt of good intrigues. Behind closed doors in the house, the protective and luxurious alcove cracks with gestures, looks and words that suggest unsaid unsaid. But why do they emerge? The suggested mystery breathes a fantastic dimension into the destabilization of a harmonious and luxurious family context. It is the intervention of the irrational in the rational of Todorov, theoretician of the fantastic, which invites itself.
Fabrice Du Welz perfectly captures this rhetoric of anguish in a bourgeois context, at the crossroads of a Chabrol and a Bunuel. The same criticism of hypocritical morals also brings them together. The film ticks all of these boxes, in the service of a relentless thriller.
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Kind : Thriller
Directors : Fabrice Du Welz
Actors : Benoît Poelvoorde, Alba Gaia Bellugi, Melanie Doutey
Country : Belgium / France
Duration : 1h38
Exit : April 6, 2022
Distributer : The Jokers / The Bookmakers
Prohibited for children under 12
Synopsis : AT the death of her father, a famous publisher, Jeanne Drahi moves into the family home with her husband, Marcel Bellmer, a successful writer, and their daughter. But a strange young girl, Gloria, will interfere in the life of the family and upset the order of things…