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It would be easy to describe this as a cross between Brief Encounter and Le Boucher because it displays elements of both, the former inasmuch as it features a young, fairly unremarkable wife and mother who enjoys - if that's the right word - an unconsummated affair with an equally unremarkable medico, the latter because there's a serial killer on the loose and Claire (Isabelle Carre) slowly comes around to suspecting her medical friend.