The Mystery of Henri Pick (Le Mystère Henri Pick) (2019)

In this jaunty comedy-mystery, like an Agatha Christie but without the murder, a book critic, smarting after losing his job and marriage, sets out like a detective to prove that a deceased pizza maker in Brittany was not the author of a bestselling novel.

★★★☆☆

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In The House (2012)

A French literature teacher enters into the thrall of a talented writer when a student starts submitting for correction excerpts of a work-in-progress, but his story is sinister, the student's motivation in telling the story is mysterious, and pretty soon author, reader, characters and story are all vying for creative control in François Ozon's initially intriguing drama that quickly becomes laboured as characters start behaving in farcical, theatrical rather than sinister Hitchcockian ways.

★★☆☆☆

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