The Repentant

5.6

France

Crime Drama

125 min

2002

Isabelle Adjani Farida Amrouche Jacques Bonnaffé Isild Le Besco Maria Schneider Catherine Mouchet Aurore Clément Samy Naceri Sami Frey Christian Aaron Boulogne

A mysterious woman, dressed in black and carrying a small suitcase, arrives in Nice and tries in vain to get a job in a luxury goods shop. She ends up in a plush hotel where a solitary middle-aged man, engages her to be his companion. They introduce themselves - she is Charlotte, he is Paul. Both are reluctant to talk about their past; both need someone to make their present predicament more tolerable. Unbeknownst to either of them, Charlotte is being followed by another man, who seems intent on revenge...