SECRET DEFENSE (1998)

Cast

Plot

Long, covoluted murder mystery from highly respected French director Jacques Rivette. The excellent Sandrine Bonnaire plays Sylvie who, on discovering her younger brother trying to steal a gun, goes on to find that their late father's "accident" was in fact murder. Fearing that little bro is on a revenge mission, Sylvie decides that she herself will avenge his death. But when she mistakenly kills the wrong person, a whole new can of worms is opened......Absorbing and atmospheric.