2025 · thriller · drama · music
Belle
Directed by Benoît Jacquot1h 40m2025
A couple have a peaceful existence in a small provincial town. He is a teacher and she runs an opticians practical. Their life is turned upside when Belle, a friend’s daughter who is lodging with them, is found dead in her room. The husband becomes the prime suspect as the only one at home at the time.
Our read: Belle (2025) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded thriller · drama · music entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, extreme thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- extreme
- twisty
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