The Woman in the Fifth (2011, France)

Original title: La femme du Veme

The Woman in the Fifth La femme du Veme 2011 mystery movie

Running time: 90 minutes

Language: French

After losing his job, American college lecturer Tom Ricks flies to Paris, where he hopes to see his daughter, who left the United States with her mother. While travelling from the airport, he is robbed, his ex-wife doesn’t want him anywhere near their daughter, and he is stuck penniless in a foreign city without any way of earning money. He finds a place to sleep in a shabby little hotel, where the owner offers him a job - all he has to do is remotely open the door if someone says the right password. The second part of his job is not to know what is behind that door or who those people are. The job gives Ricks a time to read, he also befriends the attractive waitress from the hotel, but soon learns that she is actually the wife of the hotel owner. At a party, he meets a mysterious widow, Margit, and soon becomes a suspect in a murder case.

The mystery movie that has all the right ingredients - good cast, interesting prelude, dark atmosphere and a mysterious woman... But unfortunately, the final effect is a huge letdown - the dark atmosphere is not fully utilized, the cast has not much material to perform, and the plot leads more or less nowhere. Shame.

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