On sojourn in France, Tornatore has left his sentimental humanism at home in Italy, and for a change of pace plunges into a Polanski-esque thriller, dark, cramped, cryptic, unreal (or irreal) (or surreal), with Polanski himself on hand for validation. The environmental details -- the unrelenting rain, the pots positioned beneath the leaky roof, the mud-encrusted shoes, the clock without hands, the rattrap in the liquor cabinet -- are well done.

Un film avec musique magnifique :)

I really don't know why this movie is so unknown. It's entertaining, surprising, the actings are superb and the ending is... at least different... Depardieu plays the writer Onoff and the name can say something about the character(On/off). There are many ways to understand this film after the ending, You may choose the way you like...

Very strong, very impressive work. I never realized how good Polanski is even when he's just an actor for hire on a project. Not the kind of film you think it is