by Bhob Stewart
synopsis
In this Austrian-French-Swiss thriller, upwardly mobile career woman Monika Besse (Sandrine Bonnaire) returns home to Luxembourg in order to join detective Schweiger (Rudiger Vogler) in an investigation into the death of her politician father. The situation leads to an identity crisis as Monika tries to understand her father, discovers that he planned his own death, and comes to the realization that she actually hardly knew him at all. Shown at the 1997 San Sebastian Film Festival.
characteristics
- Political
- Politician
- Suicidal
- Suicide
- Investigation
- Father
- Death
- Detective
- Dying
