This heist thriller has some stunning directorial moments (particularly when the director, Jacques Audiard, uses subjective sound) and very convincing performances (especially from Emanuelle Devos - Vincent Cassel may be top-billed as the bigger name but this is mostly her movie), but the pacing could have been tighter (it runs almost a full two hours), and the film ultimately cannot escape the derivative nature of its characters and situations: shy, lonely girl who breaks out of her shell and ex-crook who wants to go straight but is drawn back into a life of crime. **1/2 out of 4.
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